113th Field Artillery Regiment (United States) - 1st Battalion

1st Battalion

1st Battalion is currently an organic unit of the 30th Heavy Brigade Combat Team of the North Carolina Army National Guard.

On 21 May 2009, soldiers from A Battery successfully fired the M982 Excalibur precision guided artillery round from FOB Mahmoudiyah while deployed to Iraq with the 30th HBCT. This marked the first time that a National Guard unit had used the new precision guided munition in Iraq.

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