428th Field Artillery Brigade
| 428th Field Artillery Brigade | |
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428th Field Artillery Brigade Shoulder Sleeve Insignia | |
| Country |
 United States |
| Branch | US Army Field Artillery |
| Type | Field Artillery |
| Part of | TRADOC |
| Garrison/HQ | Fort Sill (OK) |
| Motto | First and Always |
| Commanders | |
| Current commander | Colonel Gene Meredith |
The 428th Field Artillery Brigade is a training unit under the United States Field Artillery School, a formation under TRADOC. The brigade trains all officers and enlisted personnel from the U.S. Army and U.S. Marine Corps as well as allied nation military personnel in field artillery core competencies in order to provide proficient integrators of lethal and non-lethal fires to the operational force.
History
The unit was constituted 19 July 1944 in the Army of the United States as Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 428th Field Artillery Group. It was later activated 25 August 1944 at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri. It was inactivated for a period in 30 September 1945 in Italy. It was later allotted 29 October 1946 to the Organized Reserves. The unit was inactivated again in 4 December 1950 at Gary, Indiana. The unit went through the several more re-designations and inactivations before finally being transferred 18 August 2006 to the United States Army Training and Doctrine Command and activated 7 December 2006 at Fort Sill, Oklahoma.[1]
Organization
The 428 consists of three battalions:[2]
- 2nd Battalion, 2nd Field Artillery Regiment (provides cannon fire during training)
- 1st Battalion, 30th Field Artillery Regiment (BOLC B, Captains Career Course)
- 1st Battalion, 78th Field Artillery Regiment (advanced individual training)