3rd Battalion, 319th Field Artillery Regiment
…Chuinzi Pass, Italy, and the Battle of the Bulge. The 3-319 AFAR, commanded by LTC (later MG) Lee E. Surut, deployed to South Vietnam in support of the 173rd Airborne Brigade at Bien Hoa Base Camp in May 1965. The unit fired the first American artillery in the Vietnam War, when the base piece of Battery C conducted its first…