10th Mountain Division Artillery explained

Unit Name:	10th Mountain Division Artillery
Dates:	1942 - present
Country:	United States of America
Type:	Field artillery
Role:	Division force fires HQ
Size:	Brigade
Garrison:	Fort Drum, New York
Battles:	World War II
Commander1:	COL Thomas A. Goettke
Commander4:	CSM Freddie Thompson IV
Commander4 Label:	Command Sergeant Major
Identification Symbol Label:	Distinctive unit insignia
Identification Symbol 2 Label:	Combat service identification badge

The 10th Mountain Division Artillery (DIVARTY) is the divisional artillery command for the 10th Mountain Division. The DIVARTY served with the division from 1942 to the present, including fighting in World War II, Somalia and in Afghanistan and Iraq, and in peacetime in Germany; Fort Benning, Georgia; Fort Riley, Kansas; and Fort Drum, New York.^[1]

History

World War II

During the Second World War, the divisional artillery included the 604th Field Artillery Battalion (Pack); the 605th Field Artillery Battalion (Pack); and the 616th Field Artillery Battalion (Pack).

10th Mountain Division Artillery
Date:	1943-1945
Parent:	10th Mountain Division
Subordinate:	604th Field Artillery Battalion (Pack) 605th Field Artillery Battalion (Pack) 616th Field Artillery Battalion (Pack)

Early Cold War - Gyroscope and inactivation

10th Infantry Division Artillery
Date:	1954-1957
Parent:	10th Infantry Division
Subordinate:	25th Field Artillery Battalion 35th Field Artillery Battalion 40th Field Artillery Battalion 85th Field Artillery Battalion 43rd Anti-Aircraft Artillery Battalion

10th Infantry Division Artillery
Date:	1957-1958
Parent:	10th Infantry Division
Subordinate:	2nd Battalion, 7th Field Artillery 2nd Battalion, 9th Field Artillery

Reincarnation as light infantry division

10th Mountain Division Artillery
Date:	1985-1996
Parent:	10th Mountain Division
Subordinate:	1st Battalion, 7th Field Artillery 2nd Battalion, 7th Field Artillery Battery E, 7th Field Artillery 10th Target Acquisition Detachment

10th Mountain Division Artillery
Date:	1996-2004
Parent:	10th Mountain Division
Subordinate:	3rd Battalion, 6th Field Artillery 2nd Battalion, 15th Field Artillery Battery E, 7th Field Artillery 10th Target Acquisition Detachment

Lineage

• Constituted in the Regular Army on 28 May 1930 as Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 10th Field Artillery Brigade, assigned to the Panama Canal Division, and allotted to the Panama Canal Department
• Consolidated on 12 October 1936 with the 10th Field Artillery Brigade, 10th Division (a World War I unit organized in August 1918 at Camp Funston, Kansas; demobilized in February 1919 at Camp Funston; reconstituted on 12 October 1936)^[2]
• Constituted 27 August 1942 in the Army of the United States as Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, Mountain Training Center Artillery
• Activated 5 September 1942 at Camp Carson, Colorado
• Reorganized and redesignated 15 July 1943 as Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment, 10th Light Division Artillery
• Reorganized and redesignated 6 November 1944 as Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 10th Mountain Division Artillery
• Inactivated 30 November 1945 at Camp Carson, Colorado
• Redesignated 18 June 1948 as Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 10th Division Artillery
• Allotted 25 June 1948 to the Regular Army
• Activated 1 July 1948 at Fort Riley, Kansas
• Redesignated 1 July 1957 as Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 10th Infantry Division Artillery
• Inactivated 14 June 1958 at Fort Benning, Georgia
• Redesignated 2 May 1987 as Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 10th Mountain Division Artillery, and activated at Fort Drum, New York^[3]
• Inactivated 6 August 2004 at Fort Drum, New York^{[4] [1]}
• Activated 16 October 2015 at Fort Drum, New York

Note: the linkage between the 10th Mountain Division Artillery and the 10th FA Bde (Panama Canal Dept) and 10th FA Bde (10th Division) is tenuous, and may not bear out when the Army updates the official lineage.

Campaign participation credit

• World War II: North Apennines, Po Valley
• War on Terror: campaigns to be determined

Army Football uniforms

In December 2017, the Army Black Knights football team wore all-white uniforms honoring the 10th Mountain Division in their annual rivalry game against the Navy Midshipmen football team.

Further reading

• Avallone, Paul. 2007. "Afghan Patrol -- A Platoon's Eye View - A Former Soldier Turned Embedded Journalist Accompanied a 10th Mountain Division (Light Infantry) Company During Operation Frozen Turkey in Afghanistan". ARMY Magazine. 57, no. 8: 36.
• Steele, Dennis. 2007. "Patrol Base Dragon: Living in 'al Qaeda Land' - Soldiers from the 10th Mountain Division (Light Infantry) Have Occupied a Derelict Power Plant Southwest of Baghdad and Are Using It As a Patrol Base, Just a Few Paces from the Operating Area of Al Qaeda in Iraq". Army. 57, no. 5: 18.
• John B. Wilson, Maneuver and Firepower: The Evolution of Divisions and Separate Brigades, (1998), Center of Military History, Publication 60-14

Notes and References

1. "DIVARTY: 10th Mountain Division Artillery." Fort Drum Organizations. Web. Accessed 19 October 2015. .
2. Clay, Steven E. The Arms: Cavalry, Field Artillery and Coast Artillery, 1919-41, vol. 2 of U.S. Army Order of Battle, 1919-1941 (Fort Leavenworth, KS: Combat Studies Institute Press), 708. Web. Accessed 18 October 2015. <https://web.archive.org/web/20101202051719/http://www.cgsc.edu/carl/download/csipubs/Clay/Ord_Battle_Vol2.pdf>
3. McKenney, Janice E. (2010). "Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 10th Mountain Division Artillery". Field Artillery Part 1. (CMH Pub 60-11-1(Part 1)). Army Lineage Series. United States Army Center of Military History: Washington. 65-66. Web. Accessed 19 October 2015 .
4. Ruscio, Pfc. Laura E. "DIVARTY transforms to meet Army needs." The Mountaineer Online. 12 August 2004. Web. Accessed 19 October 2015. .