In this blog, and in a few of the following ones, I would like to introduce you to some of the units that were depicted in the soldiers art painted on the T-Walls around Camp Buehring.  If you have any information you would like to add, or if you can more correctly describe the unit, or if I am totally off the mark, please contact us at the contact page on the website www.theartofwarinkuwait.com.   Thank you.

1 Battalion-41 Field Artillery Regiment

Where located:  GA

When in theatre:  2007 plus

Status:

The lineage of the 1 Battalion-41 Field Artillery Regiment runs back to August 1918 where it was formed at Camp Custer, MI.  In 1933, it was allotted to the Regular Army.  During WWII, the 1 Battalion-41 Field Artillery Regiment participated in nine campaigns.  Then the unit was deactivated after the War in KY at Ft. Campbell.

The nickname, “Honest John”, was given to the 41^st in GA in 1957, when redesignated as the 1^st Missile Battalion of the 41^st Field Artillery.  Later the 1^st-41^st was given the nickname of “Glory’s Guns”.

 The unit was ordered into service in support of OIF and fired the first rounds in support of ground forces in Iraq.