81st Field Artillery Regiment (United States)

81st Field Artillery Regiment
Coat of arms
Active	1917
Country	United States
Branch	Army
Type	Field artillery
Motto(s)	Libertas Justitia Humanitas
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The 81st Field Artillery Regiment is a field artillery regiment of the United States Army.

The 1st Missile Battalion, 81st Artillery was formed at Fort Sill in 1963 and deployed to McCully Barracks in Wackernheim, West Germany under the 56th Field Artillery Group. The battalion moved to Wiley Barracks, Neu-Ulm in 1968 and was redesignated the 1st Battalion, 81st Field Artillery Regiment effective 1 September 1971. It was initially equipped with eight Pershing 1 missiles and in 1969 replaced these with 36 Pershing 1a missiles. Service Battery was inactivated and reformed as B Company, 55th Maintenance Battalion in 1982. The battalion exchanged the Pershing 1a missiles for Pershing II missiles in 1984. The battalion was inactivated in 1986 and reformed as the 1st Battalion, 9th Field Artillery Regiment.

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 This article incorporates public domain material from the United States Army Institute of Heraldry document "81st Field Artillery Regiment".