The Tennessee Army National Guard is a component of the United States Army and the United States National Guard. It is administered by the Tennessee Military Department. National coordination of various state National Guard units are maintained through the National Guard Bureau.
Tennessee Army National Guard units are trained and equipped as part of the United States Army. The same ranks and insignia are used and National Guardsmen are eligible to receive all United States military awards. The Tennessee Guard also bestows a number of state awards for local services rendered in or to the state of Tennessee.
History
Tennessee's 45th General Assembly in 1887 established the Tennessee National Guard, as it is known today. State lawmakers set up the basic conditions under which the force would operate. Tennessee was among the first states to offer her full quota of soldiers for the Spanish–American War. The equipped Tennessee Guard units were mobilized. Four regiments were created, but only the 1st and 4th Regiments deployed overseas. In World War I, the 30th Infantry Division was deployed overseas. Tennessee personnel made up the 117th Infantry Regiment, the 114th and 115th Field Artillery, and the 114th Machine Gun Battalion.
After World War One, platoons of the Tennessee National Guard participated in the Knoxville riot of 1919. The Guard, which at one point fired two machine guns indiscriminately into the neighborhood, eventually dispersed the rioters.
When the 30th Infantry Division reorganized on 11 September 1947 it was composed of Guard units from North Carolina and Tennessee.John Listman, '30th Armored Division' , National Guard Educational Foundation, accessed 1 June 2012. In 1954 it was reorganized as a North‑South Carolina division with the Tennessee portion reorganized and redesignated as the 30th Armored Division. The 30th Armored Division was inactivated on 1 December 1973, with its lineage carried by the 30th Armored Brigade and the 30th Support Group, TN ARNG.
The 194th Engineer Brigade was activated as an entity of the Tennessee Army National Guard on 1 November 1973. This occurred as a result of the major reorganization of the Tennessee ARNG which inactivated the 30th Armored Division. The numerical designation was derived from a former engineer unit of the Tennessee Army National Guard, the 194th Engineer Battalion, headquartered in Centerville, Tennessee.
On 1 April 1979 the 670th Air Traffic Control Platoon was organized and Federally recognized in the Tennessee Army National Guard.
More than 3,600 Tennessee Guardsmen were mobilized for federal service ahead of the Gulf War (Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm).http://www.tnmilitary.org/who-we-are.htm The 196th Field Artillery Brigade (including the 1st Battalion, 181st Field Artillery) was one of only two Army Guard combat units to see actual combat. The Tennessee Army National Guard deployed 17 units during the conflict. A few days prior to G-Day, Tennessee's 212th Engineer Company, attached to the 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault), broke through the border berm into enemy territory, building a six-lane road. The unit traversed six miles before the ground war began, becoming the first unit of the 101st into Iraq and one of the first U.S. units to breach the Iraqi defensive zones.
The 30th Armored Brigade (Separate) furled its colors in Jackson, Tennessee in the early 1990s. The colors were passed to the 230th Area Support Group in Dyersburg, TN. The 230th has been inactivated since its return from Camp Arifjan, Kuwait.
The 670th Air Traffic Control Platoon was reorganized on 1 September 1996 in the Tennessee Army National Guard as the 107th Aviation, a parent regiment under the United States Army Regimental System, to consist of Company E. In 2005 it became the 107th Aviation Regiment.
Organization
Joint Force Headquarters-Tennessee, Army Element, in Nashville Headquarters and Headquarters Company, Joint Force Headquarters-Tennessee, Army Element, in Nashville Tennessee Recruiting & Retention Battalion, in Smyrna Tennessee Medical Detachment, in Nashville 45th Civil Support Team (WMD), in Nashville Milan Volunteer Training Site, in Lavinia Smyrna Volunteer Training Site, in Smyrna Army Aviation Support Facility #1, at Smyrna Airport (TN) Army Aviation Support Facility #2, at McGhee Tyson Airport (TN) Army Aviation Support Facility #3, at Jackson Airport (TN) Combined Support Maintenance Shop #1, in Smyrna Unit Training Equipment Site #1, in Lavinia Unit Training Equipment Site #2, at Fort Campbell Field Maintenance Shop #1, in Smyrna Field Maintenance Shop #2, in Louisville Field Maintenance Shop #3, in Jackson Field Maintenance Shop #6, in Lebanon Field Maintenance Shop #7, in Tullahoma Field Maintenance Shop #8, in Winchester Field Maintenance Shop #9, in Nashville Field Maintenance Shop #11, in Martin Field Maintenance Shop #18, in Camden 30th Troop Command, in Tullahoma Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 30th Troop Command, in Tullahoma 1st Battalion (Airfield Operations), 107th Aviation Regiment, at Smyrna Airport (part of 204th Theater Airfield Operations Group) Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 1st Battalion (Airfield Operations), 107th Aviation Regiment, at Smyrna Airport Airfield Management Element, 1st Battalion (Airfield Operations), 107th Aviation Regiment, at Smyrna Airport Company A (ATS), 1st Battalion (Airfield Operations), 107th Aviation Regiment, at Smyrna Airport 1st Battalion, 181st Field Artillery Regiment, in Chattanooga (M142 HIMARS) (part of 142nd Field Artillery Brigade) Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 1st Battalion, 181st Field Artillery Regiment, in Chattanooga Battery A, 1st Battalion, 181st Field Artillery Regiment, in Lawrenceburg Battery B, 1st Battalion, 181st Field Artillery Regiment, in Pulaski Detachment 1, Battery B, 1st Battalion, 181st Field Artillery Regiment, in Fayetteville 181st Forward Support Company, in Athens Detachment 1, 181st Forward Support Company, in Dayton 1st Battalion (Assault), 230th Aviation Regiment, at Smyrna Airport Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 1st Battalion (Assault), 230th Aviation Regiment, at Smyrna Airport Detachment 1, Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 1st Battalion (Assault), 230th Aviation Regiment, at Johnstown–Cambria County Airport (PA) — (Pennsylvania Army National Guard) Company A, 1st Battalion (Assault), 230th Aviation Regiment, at Jackson Airport (UH-60M Black Hawk) Company B, 1st Battalion (Assault), 230th Aviation Regiment, at Smyrna Airport (UH-60M Black Hawk) Company C, 1st Battalion (Assault), 230th Aviation Regiment, at Johnstown–Cambria County Airport (PA) (UH-60M Black Hawk) — (Pennsylvania Army National Guard) Company D (AVUM), 1st Battalion (Assault), 230th Aviation Regiment, at Smyrna Airport Detachment 1, Company D (AVUM), 1st Battalion (Assault), 230th Aviation Regiment, at Johnstown–Cambria County Airport (PA) — (Pennsylvania Army National Guard) Detachment 2, Company D (AVUM), 1st Battalion (Assault), 230th Aviation Regiment, at Jackson Airport Company E (Forward Support), 1st Battalion (Assault), 230th Aviation Regiment, at Smyrna Airport Detachment 1, Company E (Forward Support), 1st Battalion (Assault), 230th Aviation Regiment, at Johnstown–Cambria County Airport (PA) — (Pennsylvania Army National Guard) Detachment 2, Company E (Forward Support), 1st Battalion (Assault), 230th Aviation Regiment, at Jackson Airport Detachment 1, Company G (MEDEVAC), 1st Battalion (General Support Aviation), 111th Aviation Regiment, at Jackson Airport(HH-60L Black Hawk) Detachment 6, Company D (AVUM), 1st Battalion (General Support Aviation), 111th Aviation Regiment, at Jackson Airport Detachment 7, Company E (Forward Support), 1st Battalion (General Support Aviation), 111th Aviation Regiment, at Jackson Airport Detachment 1, Company C (MEDEVAC), 2nd Battalion (General Support Aviation), 135th Aviation Regiment, at McGhee Tyson Airport (HH-60L Black Hawk) Detachment 3, Company D (AVUM), 2nd Battalion (General Support Aviation), 135th Aviation Regiment, at McGhee Tyson Airport Detachment 3, Company E (Forward Support), 2nd Battalion (General Support Aviation), 135th Aviation Regiment, at McGhee Tyson Airport Detachment 1, Company C, 2nd Battalion (Security & Support), 151st Aviation Regiment, at Joint Base Berry Field (UH-72A Lakota) Detachment 6, Company A, 2nd Battalion (Fixed Wing), 641st Aviation Regiment (Detachment 25, Operational Support Airlift Activity), at Smyrna Airport (C-12 Huron) Detachment 3, Company B (AVIM), 628th Aviation Support Battalion, at McGhee Tyson Airport 301st Troop Command Battalion, in Nashville Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment, 301st Troop Command Battalion, in Nashville 105th Human Resources Company, in Nashville 118th Mobile Public Affairs Detachment, in Nashville 129th Army Band, in Nashville Detachment 2, Cyber Protection Team 175, in Nashville 230th Medical Company (Area Support), in Smyrna 230th Signal Company (Tactical Installation/Networking), in Nashville 230th Digital Liaison Detachment, in Smyrna 1128th Financial Management Support Detachment, in Nashville 1957th Support Detachment (Contracting Team), in Nashville 35th Division Sustainment Brigade, in Chattanooga 35th Division Sustainment Troops Battalion, in Chattanooga Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 35th Division Sustainment Brigade, in Chattanooga 155th Signal Company, in Chattanooga Company A (Composite Supply Company), 169th Division Sustainment Support Battalion, in Memphis Detachment 1, Company A, 169th Division Sustainment Support Battalion, in Erwin 30th Combat Sustainment Support Battalion, in Humboldt Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 30th Combat Sustainment Support Battalion, in Humboldt 1172nd Transportation Company (Medium Truck) (Cargo), in Memphis Detachment 1, 1172nd Transportation Company (Medium Truck) (Cargo), in Waynesboro 1175th Transportation Company (Combat HET), in Tullahoma Detachment 1, 1175th Transportation Company (Combat HET), in Brownsville 176th Combat Sustainment Support Battalion, in Johnson City Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 176th Combat Sustainment Support Battalion, in Johnson City 776th Ordnance Company (Support Maintenance), in Elizabethton Detachment 1, 776th Ordnance Company (Support Maintenance), in Mountain City 777th Ordnance Company (Support Maintenance), in Smyrna 1176th Transportation Company (Light-Medium Truck), in Dresden Detachment 1, 1176th Transportation Company (Light-Medium Truck), in Jacksboro Detachment 1, 1176th Transportation Company (Light-Medium Truck), in Smyrna 194th Engineer Brigade, in Jackson Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 194th Engineer Brigade, in Jackson 117th Military Police Battalion, in Athens Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment, 117th Military Police Battalion, in Athens 252nd Military Police Company (Combat Support), in Cleveland Detachment 1, 252nd Military Police Company (Combat Support), in Oneida 253rd Military Police Company (Combat Support), in Lenoir City Detachment 1, 253rd Military Police Company (Combat Support), in Bristol 269th Military Police Company (Combat Support), in Murfreesboro 168th Military Police Battalion, in Dyersburg Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment, 168th Military Police Battalion, in Dyersburg 251st Military Police Company (Combat Support), in Lexington Detachment 1, 251st Military Police Company (Combat Support), in Bolivar 267th Military Police Company (Combat Support), in Dickson Detachment 1, 267th Military Police Company (Combat Support), in Waverly 268th Military Police Company (Combat Support), in Ripley Detachment 1,268th Military Police Company (Combat Support), in Alamo 230th Engineer Battalion, in Trenton Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 230th Engineer Battalion, in Trenton