Before deploying to Australia, the two horse-drawn battalions fielded jeeps to replace their horses in order to save shipping space.

The 2nd Bn, 20th Arty was an aerial rocket artillery (ARA) battalion, consisting of three batteries, each with twelve UH-1B helicopters firing 2.75-inch rockets, while Btry E, 82nd Arty was an aviation battery with 20 helicopters for observation and other aviation support.

Between July and September 1965, the newly organized 1st Cavalry Division Artillery departed Fort Benning for combat in Vietnam[5][6] In preparation for deployment to Iraq, the division provisionally reorganized DIVARTY as a brigade combat team (BCT).

On 6 April 2004, the DIVARTY assumed control of Al-Rashid district in Baghdad from the 1st Armored Division Artillery Combat Team.

[7] As part of the division's conversion to modular brigade combat teams, the DIVARTY was inactivated on 26 June 2005.