1st Battalion, 168th Field Artillery (Nebraska Army National Guard)
The 1st Battalion, 168th Field Artillery (1-168 FA) was a
The lineage of the 168th Field Artillery parent regiment began with the 1946 formation of the 3rd Battalion,
History
When the Nebraska National Guard was reorganized after
Under the
When the 34th Infantry Division was eliminated in the 1 April 1963
The 1st Battalion, 168th Artillery was formed as the direct support battalion of the 67th Infantry Brigade under the 1 May 1968 reorganization of the Nebraska Army National Guard. HHB was at Scottsbluff with elements at Sidney, Service Battery at Gering, Battery A at Ogallala, Battery B at North Platte, and Battery C at Chadron with elements at Alliance.[8] 1-168 FA continued in this role when the brigade became part of the reformed 35th Infantry Division as the 67th Brigade on 1 October 1985. The battalion was subordinate to the 35th Infantry Division Artillery headquarters.[1] Under this reorganization, Broken Bow returned to the battalion when its Company C, 1st Battalion, 195th Armor became a detachment of one of the 1-168 FA batteries.[9]
By 1990, the battalion was equipped with the M109A2 self-propelled howitzer and included about 400 members. The battalion conducted its two weeks of annual training at Camp Guernsey, Wyoming.[10] It became the first battalion of the 35th Division Artillery to receive upgraded M109A5 howitzers in 1995.[11]
The battalion was inactivated on 30 September 1997 due to the conversion of the 67th Brigade into a support group. Its subordinate units were mostly converted into support units while the battalion headquarters was converted into the 168th Quartermaster Battalion headquarters, which perpetuated its lineage. Under the reorganization, Scottsbluff also gained a medical section of the 1st Battalion, 195th Armor and a maintenance section of the 67th Support Battalion, while Alliance, formerly the site of Detachment 1, Battery A, lost its National Guard presence with the closure of its armory. Battery A at Sidney became a mortar platoon of the 1st Battalion, 134th Infantry. Battery C at Chadron became the 1057th Transportation Company with platoons in Scottsbluff and Omaha.[12] Service Battery at Gering became a company of the 1st Battalion, 195th Armor.[13] The Scottsbluff-based Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment, 168th Quartermaster Battalion (Petroleum Supply) was inactivated in 2012.[14]
Heraldry
The design of the regimental
References
Citations
- ^ a b c d "Gering Guard is Still Active". Gering Courier. 30 April 1987. p. 9.
- ^ Nebraska Adjutant General's Department 1948, pp. 15–16.
- ^ "Anti-Tank Guard Unit 134 Infantry to Gering". Gering Courier. 25 October 1946. pp. 1, 12.
- ^ Nebraska Adjutant General's Department 1948, p. 11.
- ^ "National Guard to Change to Pentomic". Gering Courier. 13 March 1959. pp. 1, 8.
- ^ "Centennial Brigade Guard Plans Told". Lincoln Evening Journal. 16 March 1963. p. 3.
- ^ "Reorganized Guard Plan Is Approved". Fremont Tribune. 16 March 1963. p. 5.
- ^ "Tiemann Tells Plans To Reorganize Guard". Lincoln Evening Journal. 19 December 1967. p. 23.
- ^ "Guard units have new look". Beatrice Daily Sun. 5 July 1984. p. A-8.
- ^ "National Guard Gears Up For Busy Summer". Alliance Times-Herald. 31 May 1990. p. 2.
- ^ Toczek, Wendy (23 March 1995). "Chadron's battalion first to have upgraded howitzers". Chadron Record. p. 5.
- ^ "1057th Transportation Company Lineage and Honors". history.army.mil. U.S. Army Center of Military History. 20 December 2011. Retrieved 2022-06-07.
- ^ Holland, Jim (12 December 1996). "More Nebraska Army National Guard changes announced". Chadron Record. p. 10A.
- ^ Guzman, Chabella (13 April 2012). "Unit says farewell to community after 90 years". Star-Herald. Retrieved 25 December 2020.
- ^ Stein 1993, p. 60.
Bibliography
- Biennial Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Nebraska, 1947–1948. Lincoln: Nebraska Adjutant General's Department. 1948.
- Stein, Barry Jason (1993). U.S. Army Heraldic Crests: A Complete Illustrated History of Authorized Distinctive Unit Insignia. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press. ISBN 0-87249-963-4.