| Tennessee Army National Guard | |
|---|---|
.jpg) Tennessee Army National Guard HeadquartersDUI | |
| Active | 1903-present |
| Country |  United States |
| Branch | Army National Guard |
| Type | Army |
| Role | Land warfare |
| Size | 10,700+[1] |
| Part of | Tennessee Military Department |
| Garrison/HQ | Nashville, Tennessee |
| Commanders | |
| Commander in Chief (Title 10 USC) |  PresidentDonald Trump (when federalized) |
| Commander in Chief (Title 32 USC) |  GovernorBill Lee |
| Adjutant General |  Major General Warner A. Ross II[2] |
| Director of the Joint Staff |  Brigadier General Michael “Trent” Scates[3] |
| Insignia | |
| Tennessee Army National Guard Crest |  |
| Tennessee Army National Guard 30th Troop Command Flag |  |
| Tennessee Army National Guard Headquarters Flag |  |
TheTennessee Army National Guard is a component of theUnited States Army and theUnited States National Guard. It is administered by theTennessee Military Department. National coordination of various state National Guard units are maintained through theNational Guard Bureau.
Tennessee Army National Guard units are trained and equipped as part of the United States Army. The sameranks and insignia are used and National Guardsmen are eligible to receive allUnited States military awards. The Tennessee Guard also bestows a number ofstate awards for local services rendered in or to the state ofTennessee.
Tennessee's 45th General Assembly in 1887 established the Tennessee National Guard, as it is known today.[4] 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, the30th Infantry Division was deployed overseas. Tennessee personnel made up the117th Infantry Regiment, the 114th and115th Field Artillery, and the 114th Machine Gun Battalion.
After World War One, platoons of the Tennessee National Guard participated in theKnoxville riot of 1919. The Guard, which at one point fired two machine guns indiscriminately into the neighborhood, eventually dispersed the rioters.[5][6][7]
When the 30th Infantry Division reorganized on 11 September 1947 it was composed of Guard units from North Carolina and Tennessee.[8] In 1954 it was reorganized as a North‑South Carolina division with the Tennessee portion reorganized and redesignated as the30th Armored Division. The 30th Armored Division was inactivated on 1 December 1973, with its lineage carried by the30th Armored Brigade and the 30th Support Group, TN ARNG.
The194th 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 inCenterville, 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 theGulf War (Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm).[9] The196th 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 the107th Aviation Regiment.
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Current units include the following:
194th Engineer Brigade[12]
1st Battalion (Airfield Operations),107th Aviation Regiment[11]
278th Armored Cavalry Regiment (ACR)[15]
278th ACR
181st Field Artillery Regiment[15]
Military Police[15]
117th Military Police Battalion at AthensEngineering Units[15]
Maintenance Units[15]
Transportation Units[15]
Other[15]
