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2nd Field Artillery Regiment (Greece)
2nd Field Artillery Regiment can refer to: * 2nd Field Artillery Regiment (Belgium), now known as "Para-Commando Field Artillery Battery" *2nd Field Artillery Regiment (Canada) The 2nd Field Artillery Regiment, RCA (french: 2e Régiment d'artillerie de campagne, ARC) is a Royal Canadian Artillery reserve regiment. It is located in Montreal and shares its headquarters with The Royal Canadian Hussars (Montreal) at the Cô ... * 2nd Field Artillery Regiment (United States) {{mil-unit-dis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2nd Field Artillery Regiment (Belgium)
The 2nd Field Artillery Regiment/Field Artillery Battery ParaCommando ( nl, 2 Regiment Veldartillerie/Batterij Veldartillerie ParaCommando) or 2A was an artillery battalion in the Land Component of the Belgian Armed Forces. The regiment was the field artillery Field artillery is a category of mobile artillery used to support armies in the field. These weapons are specialized for mobility, tactical proficiency, short range, long range, and extremely long range target engagement. Until the early 20 ... battalion of the 1st Brigade until 2010. In later years, the M109A2 howitzer was replaced by the MO-120 120mm mortar. 2A consisted of 4 batteries: * Mortar By * WFS By * DLOC By * H&S By Field Artillery, 2 Airborne units and formations of Belgium Para-Commando Field Artillery Battery Educational institutions established in 1973 1973 establishments in Belgium {{Belgium-mil-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2nd Field Artillery Regiment (Canada)
The 2nd Field Artillery Regiment, RCA (french: 2e Régiment d'artillerie de campagne, ARC) is a Royal Canadian Artillery reserve regiment. It is located in Montreal and shares its headquarters with The Royal Canadian Hussars (Montreal) at the Côte-des-Neiges Armory. Although there had been temporary volunteer artillery units formed in Montreal as early as 1828, the regiment has its origin in the 3rd Montreal Battery formed in 1855 as a result of the departure of British regular troops for the Crimean War and the passage of the Militia Act of 1855. Militia forces, including the five field batteries formed, would for the first time be maintained at public expense. In 1856 the Battalion of Montreal Artillery was formed and in 1895 it was renamed the 2nd "Montreal" Regiment, CA. War in Europe In the First World War several batteries of artillery were raised in Montreal and the 2nd Brigade included the 3rd Montreal Battery amongst its four batteries. During the war, the unit took ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
