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Tennessee Army National Guard

Component of the US Army and military of the U.S. state of Tennessee

Tennessee Army National Guard
Summary

Component of the US Army and military of the U.S. state of Tennessee

FieldValue
unit_nameTennessee Army National Guard
imageFile:Tennessee_STARC_DUI_(from_TIOH).jpg
image_size220px
captionTennessee Army National Guard Headquarters DUI
dates1903-present
countryUnited States
branchArmy National Guard
typeArmy
roleLand warfare
size10,700+
command_structureTennessee Military Department
current_commanderMajor General Max Haston
garrisonNashville, Tennessee
identification_symbol[[File:Tennessee National Guard crest.svg100px]]
identification_symbol_labelTennessee Army National Guard Crest
identification_symbol_2[[File:TN ARNG 30TH TROOP COMMANDS.png150px]]
identification_symbol_3[[File:TN ARNG Flag.jpg150px]]
identification_symbol_2_labelTennessee Army National Guard 30th Troop Command Flag
identification_symbol_3_labelTennessee Army National Guard Headquarters Flag
anniversaries
commander1Flag of the President of the United States.svg President Donald Trump (when federalized)
commander1_labelCommander in Chief (Title 10 USC)
commander2Flag_of_the_Governor_of_Tennessee.svg Governor Bill Lee
commander2_labelCommander in Chief (Title 32 USC)
commander3[[File:US-O8 insignia.svg25px]] Major General Warner A. Ross II
commander3_labelAdjutant General
commander4[[File:US-O7 insignia.svg20px]] Brigadier General Michael “Trent” Scates
commander4_labelDirector of the Joint Staff

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.

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. 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.

When the 30th Infantry Division reorganized on 11 September 1947 it was composed of Guard units from North Carolina and Tennessee. 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.

On 1 April 1979 the 670th Air Traffic Control Platoon was organized and Federally recognized in the Tennessee Army National Guard.

More than 3,600 Tennessee Guardsmen were mobilized for federal service ahead of the Gulf War (Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm). 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 National Guard 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.

The 670th Air Traffic Control Platoon was reorganized on 1 September 1996 in the Tennessee Army National Guard as the 107th Aviation, a parent regiment under the United States Army Regimental System, to consist of Company E. In 2005 it became the 107th Aviation Regiment.

Units in 2020

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:

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  • [[File:278th ACR DUI.jpg|25x25px]]278th ACR
    • Headquarters 278th Armored Cavalry Regiment at Knoxville
    • Detachment 1 Battery A Regimental Fires Squadron 278th ACR at Pigeon Forge
    • Headquarters and Headquarters Troop RTS, 278th ACR at Lebanon
    • A Troop RTS, 278th ACR at Nashville
    • C Troop RTS, 278th ACR at Dunlap
    • Detachment 1, C Troop RTS, 278th ACR at Monteagle
    • Detachment 2, C Troop RTS, 278th ACR at McKenzie
    • B Battery Field Artillery Squadron, 278th ACR at Covington
    • Regimental Support Squadron Headquarters, 278th ACR at Columbia
    • Detachment 1, Troop F Support Squadron, 278th ACR at Parsons
    • Headquarters and Headquarters Troop, 1/278th ACR Henderson
      • Troop A 1/278th ACR at Huntingdon
      • Troop B 1/278th ACR at Clarksville
      • Troop C 1/278th ACR at Milan
      • Troop D 1/278th ACR at Ashland City
    • Headquarters and Headquarters Troop, 2/278th ACR at Cookeville
      • Detachment 1, HHT, 2-278th ACR at Gallatin
      • Troop E, 2/278th ACR at Jamestown
      • Detachment 1, Troop E, 2/278th ACR at Livingston
      • Troop F, 2/278th ACR at McMinnville
      • Troop G, 2/278th ACR at Crossville
      • Troop H, 2/278th ACR at Rockwood
    • Headquarters and Headquarters Troop, 3/278th ACR at Mount Carmel
      • Troop K, 3/278th ACR AT Newport
      • Troop L, 3/278th ACR at Greeneville
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Military Police

Engineering Units

Maintenance Units

Transportation Units

Other

Historic units

278 infantry Regiment COA.png|278th Infantry Regiment 109th ArmorRegtCOA.png|109th Armored Regiment 230th Cav Rgt Coa.png|230th Cavalry Regiment 181FARegtCOA.jpg|181st Field Artillery Regiment

References

References

  1. "Army Guard".
  2. "Commissioner".
  3. "Director of the Joint Staff".
  4. "History".
  5. link. (15 April 2013 , National Guard Educational Foundation, accessed 1 June 2012.)
  6. http://www.tnmilitary.org/who-we-are.htm{{Dead link. (June 2018)
  7. "230th Sustainment Brigade". Tennessee Department of Military.
  8. "194th Engineer Brigade". Tennessee Department of Military.
  9. "30th Troop Command". Tennessee Department of Military.
  10. "Motlow, George Dickel, Manchester, Bonnaroo, Coffee County, Winchester, Monteagle, Tims Ford, Beechcraft, Lynchburg, A.E.D.C., Sign Dept.".
  11. "117th Regiment Training Institute". Tennessee Department of Military.
  12. "Armories and Recruiting Stations". U.S. National Guard.
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