V Corps Artillery
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V Corps Artillery (VCA) is part of the United States Army V Corps in Heidelberg, Germany. VCA took part in Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF)1, and are currently back in Iraq in support of OIF. V Corps Artillery moved to Heidelberg, Germany from Wiesbaden, Germany in 2001 and has remained there ever since. Currently they can be located on Tompkins Barracks in Schwetzingen, Germany.
During the Cold War the command consisted of the 41st and 42nd Field Artillery Brigades.
It's subordinate 41st FA Brigade disbanded in late June 2005, and it's last subordinate battalion 1-27 FA (MRLS) disbanded at about the same time.
V Corps Artillery will inactivate in fiscal year 2007.
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Jim Tice, 3,500 1st AD soldiers to leave Germany in ’07, Army Times
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