18th Field Artillery Brigade

The 18th Field Artillery Brigade was originally constituted on 18 October 1927 in the Regular Army as Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 18th Field Artillery Brigade and activated on 19 January 1943 at Camp Gruber, Oklahoma. During World War II, the brigade provided crucial artillery support in the European Theater, participating in campaigns such as Normandy and Rhineland. In the postwar era, the brigade was reactivated and reorganized several times, eventually becoming a key element of the XVIII Airborne Corps at Fort Liberty, North Carolina. Today, the 18th Field Artillery Brigade remains the Army’s only airborne field artillery brigade, delivering precision fire support and maintaining rapid deployment capabilities worldwide.