Lineage
Constituted 3 February 1944 in the Army of the United States as Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 212th Field Artillery Group
- Activated 20 April 1944 at Fort Riley, Kansas
- Inactivated 30 April 1946 in Germany
Redesignated 17 September 1958 as Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 212th Artillery Group, and allotted to the Regular Army
- Activated 15 October 1958 in Germany
Redesignated 15 March 1972 as Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 212th Field Artillery Group
- Redesignated 16 July 1980 as Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 212th Field Artillery Brigade
- Inactivated 15 January 2007 at Fort Sill, Oklahoma
Redesignated 16 January 2010 as Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 212th Fires Brigade
- Activated 16 August 2011 at Fort Bliss, Texas
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“I declare
Two lineages electrify the air,
That will like pennons from a mast
Fly over sleep and life and death
Till sun is powerless to decoy
A single seed above the earth:
Lineage of sorrow: lineage of joy....”
—Philip Larkin (1922–1986)