1st Battalion, 102nd Field Artillery (United States)
- 1st Battalion, 102nd Field Artillery (United States)
Infobox Military Unit
unit_name= 102nd Field Artillery
caption=Coat of Arms 102nd Field Artillery Regiment
dates= July 1786- July 15, 2006
country= United States
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branch= Massachusetts Army National Guard
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garrison=Quincy, Massachusetts
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equipment=M109A5 (last used)
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motto=SIC ITUR AD ASTRA (This Is the Way to the Stars)
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battles=World War I
*Champagne-Marne
*Aisne-Marne
*St. Mihiel
*Meuse-Argonne
*Île-de-France
*Lorraine
World War II
*Northern France
*Rhineland
*Ardennes-Alsace
*Central Europe
Operation Iraqi Freedom III
*Battle of Abu Ghraib
*Operation Great Lakes
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102nd Field Artillery was organized in July 1786 in the Massachusetts Volunteer Militia at Salem, Massachusetts as the Cadet Company and redesignated as the Second Corps of Cadets. In 1972 they became the 102nd Field Artillery and in 1996 the 102nd was reorganized as a regiment to consist of the 1st Battalion. On July 15th 2006, the 102d cased their colors in Fort Independence at Castle Island in South Boston, Massachusetts. The lineage of the 102d Field Artillery and the Second Corps of Cadets was transferred to Bravo Battery, 1st Battalion 101st Field Artillery in Danvers, Massachusetts.
ee also
*Yankee Division
*Hudson Armory
*2nd Battalion, 102nd Field Artillery
External links
* [http://mass.gov/guard/PAO/PAO_Pages_Press_Releases/060715_102ndFieldArtilleryDeactivation.pdf 102nd Field Artillery to Case Colors at Castle Island]
* [http://www.tioh.hqda.pentagon.mil/FA/102%20Field%20Artillery.htm 102ND FIELD ARTILLERY] , U.S. Army Institute Of Heraldry
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