February 6, 2025 — The 138th Field Artillery Brigade will redesignate as the 138th Operational Fires Command in support of the U.S. Army V Corps, located at Fort Knox, Kentucky. The OFC will be the first unit of its kind in a pilot aimed to solve challenges faced while applying lethal and non-lethal fires in large scale combat operations...

The 138th Field Artillery Brigade is a field artillery brigade of the United States Army. It is a component of the Kentucky Army National Guard . It is headquartered in Lexington, Kentucky .

138th Field Artillery Brigade, Lexington, Kentucky. 2,963 likes · 48 talking about this · 168 were here. Official page of the Kentucky National Guard's 138th Field Artillery Brigade. Providing...

The year 2009 marked the 40th Anniversary of the return to the Bluegrass from Vietnam following a 12-month tour of duty for the men of the 2nd Battalion, 138th Field Artillery, Kentucky Army National Guard. Read about the history of the 138th Field Artillery in the Vietnam War from 1968 - 1969. Kentucky Thunder in Vietnam (PDF 38.8 MB)

On April 19, 1968, the 2d Battalion, 138th Field Artillery with units in Louisville, Bardstown, Elizabethtown and Carrollton, Kentucky were ordered to active duty by President Lyndon B. Johnson. Among 24,500 men ordered to active duty in 88 units across the United States were 570 Kentucky Guardsmen and 750 Kentucky Air Guardsmen.

2016年6月9日 · As the nation prepared for World War I, the battalion was called to active duty and was reorganized in 1917 as the 138th Field Artillery Battalion and assigned to the 38th Infantry Division. Then in January 1941, as the nation mobilized to prepare for World War II, the battalion was once again was mobilized.

138th FIELD ARTILLERY BRIGADE (BLUEGRASS BRIGADE) Constituted 15 September 1953 in the Kentucky Army National Guard as Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, XXIII Corps Artillery

138th Field Artillery Brigade "Kentucky Thunder" The 138th FA BDE was selected to participate in the I Corps WFX ramp-up in Sep 1999. The unit took a TOC Cell to Ft Lewis, Washington.

2nd Battalion - 138th Field Artillery. The 2/138th Field Artillery Battalion was constituted 21 January, 1839 in the Kentucky Militia as the Louisville Legion and organized at Louisville,...

2024年2月29日 · This is the official webpage of the 138th FAB. Constituted Jan. 21, 1839 in the Kentucky Militia as the Louisville Legion and organized at Louisville. The unit mustered into federal service May 17, 1846 as the first Kentucky Volunteer Infantry and mustered out of federal service May 17, 1847 at New Orleans, Louisiana.