Headquarters
72d Field Artillery Brigade
Lineage and Honors Information as of 22 March 2007
Headquarters, 72d Field Artillery Brigade Lineage
Constituted 24 October 1917 in the National Army as the 349th Field Artillery and assigned to the 92d Division
Organized 2 November 1917 at Camp Dix, New Jersey
Demobilized 17 March 1919 at Camp Dix, New Jersey
Reconstituted 4 September 1930 in the Organized Reserves as the 349th Field Artillery
Withdrawn 1 August 1940 from the Organized Reserves, allotted to the Regular Army, and activated at Fort Sill, Oklahoma
Headquarters and Headquarters Battery reorganized and redesignated 1 March 1943 as Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 349th Field Artillery Group (remainder of regiment – hereafter separate lineages)
Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 349th Field Artillery Group, inactivated 26 May 1946 in Germany
Redesignated 5 February 1947 as Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 72d Field Artillery Group
Activated 17 December 1954 in Germany
Redesignated 1 June 1958 as Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 72d Artillery Group
Redesignated 15 March 1972 as Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 72d Field Artillery Group
Redesignated 1 September 1980 as Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 72d Field Artillery Brigade
Inactivated 15 May 1992 in Germany
Headquarters activated 1 December 2006 at Fort George G. Meade, Maryland
Headquarters, 72d Field Artillery Brigade Honors
Campaign Participation Credit
World War I: Lorraine, 1918
World War II: Rhineland; Central Europe
Decorations
None