Tennessee Army National Guard
Tennessee Army National Guard Headquarters DUI
Active1903-present
CountryUnited States
BranchArmy National Guard
TypeARNG Headquarters Command
Part ofTennessee Military Department
Commanders
Civilian leadershipPresident Joe Biden
(Commander-in-Chief)
Governor Bill Lee
(Governor of the State of Tennessee)
State military leadershipBrigadier General Warner A. Ross II
(Adjutant General, Tennessee Military Department)
Brigadier General Michael “Trent” Scates
(Assistant Adjutant General, Army, Tennessee Military Department)

The Tennessee Army National Guard is a component of the United States Army and the United States National Guard. It is administered by the Tennessee Military Department. National coordination of various state National Guard units are maintained through the National Guard Bureau.

Tennessee Army National Guard units are trained and equipped as part of the United States Army. The same ranks and insignia are used and National Guardsmen are eligible to receive all United States military awards. The Tennessee Guard also bestows a number of state awards for local services rendered in or to the state of Tennessee.

Current units

Sfc. Brian Lamm of the Tennessee Army National Guard stands in formation during the Ukrainian Independence Day parade in Kyiv, August 24, 2018

Current units include the following:

278th Armored Cavalry Regiment (ACR)[6]

181st Field Artillery Regiment[6]

Military Police[6]

Engineering Units[6]

Maintenance Units[6]

Transportation Units[6]

Other[6]

History

Tennessee Army National Guardsmen participating in training in preparation for deployment to Iraq, 2009

Tennessee's 45th General Assembly in 1887 established the Tennessee National Guard, as it is known today.[7] State lawmakers set up the basic conditions under which the force would operate. Tennessee was among the first states to offer her full quota of soldiers for the Spanish–American War. The equipped Tennessee Guard units were mobilized. Four regiments were created, but only the 1st and 4th Regiments deployed overseas. In World War I, the 30th Infantry Division was deployed overseas. Tennessee personnel made up the 117th Infantry Regiment, the 114th and 115th Field Artillery, and the 114th Machine Gun Battalion.

After World War One, platoons of the Tennessee National Guard participated in the Knoxville riot of 1919. The Guard, which at one point fired two machine guns indiscriminately into the neighborhood, eventually dispersed the rioters.[8][9][10]

When the 30th Infantry Division reorganized on 11 September 1947 it was composed of Guard units from North Carolina and Tennessee.[11] In 1954 it was reorganized as a North‑South Carolina division with the Tennessee portion reorganized and redesignated as the 30th Armored Division. The 30th Armored Division was inactivated on 1 December 1973, with its lineage carried by the 30th Armored Brigade and the 30th Support Group, TN ARNG.

The 194th Engineer Brigade was activated as an entity of the Tennessee Army National Guard on 1 November 1973. This occurred as a result of the major reorganization of the Tennessee ARNG which inactivated the 30th Armored Division. The numerical designation was derived from a former engineer unit of the Tennessee Army National Guard, the 194th Engineer Battalion, headquartered in Centerville, Tennessee.

More than 3,600 Tennessee Guardsmen were mobilized for federal service ahead of the Gulf War (Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm).[12] The 196th Field Artillery Brigade (including the 1st Battalion, 181st Field Artillery) was one of only two Army Guard combat units to see actual combat. The Tennessee Army deployed 17 units during the conflict. A few days prior to G-Day, Tennessee's 212th Engineer Company, attached to the 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault), broke through the border berm into enemy territory, building a six-lane road. The unit traversed six miles before the ground war began, becoming the first unit of the 101st into Iraq and one of the first U.S. units to breach the Iraqi defensive zones.

The 30th Armored Brigade (Separate) furled its colors in Jackson, Tennessee in the early 1990s. The colors were passed to the 230th Area Support Group in Dyersburg, TN. The 230th has been inactivated since its return from Camp Arifjan, Kuwait.

Historic units

See also

References

  1. ^ "230th Sustainment Brigade". Tennessee Department of Military. Retrieved 31 October 2020.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g "30th Troop Command". Tennessee Department of Military. Retrieved 31 October 2020.
  3. ^ "194th Engineer Brigade". Tennessee Department of Military. Retrieved 31 October 2020.
  4. ^ "Motlow, George Dickel, Manchester, Bonnaroo, Coffee County, Winchester, Monteagle, Tims Ford, Beechcraft, Lynchburg, A.E.D.C., Sign Dept". www.tullahomanews.com. Retrieved 22 April 2018.
  5. ^ a b c d e "117th Regiment Training Institute". Tennessee Department of Military. Retrieved 31 October 2020.
  6. ^ a b c d e f g "Armories and Recruiting Stations". U.S. National Guard. Retrieved 31 October 2020.
  7. ^ "History". tnmilitary.org. Archived from the original on 5 March 2016. Retrieved 25 September 2018.
  8. ^ Lakin 2000, pp. 1–29.
  9. ^ Booker 2001.
  10. ^ Williams 2008.
  11. ^ John Listman, '30th Armored Division' Archived 15 April 2013 at archive.today, National Guard Educational Foundation, accessed 1 June 2012.
  12. ^ http://www.tnmilitary.org/who-we-are.htm[permanent dead link]

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