The 10th Mountain Division Artillery (DIVARTY) is the force fires headquarters for the 10th Mountain Division. The DIVARTY served with the division from 1942 to the present, including combat service in World War II, Somalia and the Global War on Terror, and in peacetime in Germany; Fort Benning, Georgia; Fort Riley, Kansas; and Fort Drum, New York . As the force hires headquarters, "10th Mountain Division Artillery (DIVARTY), plans, prepares, executes and assesses combined arms operations to provide close support and precision strikes for the Division while employing Joint and organic fires and capabilities to achieve distribution effects in support of commander’s operational and tactical objectives."
Constituted in the Regular Army on 28 May 1930 as Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 10th Field Artillery Brigade, assigned to the Panama Canal Division, and allotted to the Panama Canal Department
Consolidated on 12 October 1936 with the 10th Field Artillery Brigade, 10th Division (a World War I unit organized in August 1918 at Camp Funston, Kansas; demobilized in February 1919 at Camp Funston; reconstituted on 12 October 1936)
Constituted 27 August 1942 in the Army of the United States as headquarters and Headquarters Battery, Mountain Training Center Artillery
Activated 5 September 1942 at Camp Carson, Colorado
Reorganized and redesignated 15 July 1943 as Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment, 10th Light Division Artillery
Reorganized and redesignated 6 November 1944 as Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 10th Mountain Division Artillery
Inactivated 30 November 1945 at Camp Carson, Colorado
Redesignated 18 June 1948 as Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 10th Division Artillery
Allotted 25 June 1948 to the Regular Army
Activated 1 July 1948 at Fort Riley, Kansas
Redesignated 1 July 1957 as Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 10th Infantry Division Artillery
Inactivated 14 June 1958 at Fort Benning, Georgia
Redesignated 2 May 1987 as Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 10th Mountain Division Artillery, and activated at Fort Drum, New York
Inactivated 6 August 2004 at Fort Drum, New York
Activated 16 October 2015 at Fort Drum, New York
Note: the linkage between the 10th Mountain Division Artillery and the 10th FA Bde (Panama Canal Dept) and 10th FA Bde (10th Division) is tenuous, and may not bear out when the Army updates the official lineage.
World War II: North Apennines, Po Valley
War on Terror: campaigns to be determined
