The brigade trains all officers and enlisted personnel from the U.S. Army and U.S. Marine Corps as well as allied nation military personnel in field artillery core competencies in order to provide proficient integrators of lethal and non-lethal fires to the operational force.

It was later activated 25 August 1944 at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri.

The unit went through several more re-designations and inactivations before finally being transferred 18 August 2006 to the United States Army Training and Doctrine Command and activated 7 December 2006 at Fort Sill, Oklahoma.

[1] in February 1989 the 1st Battalion, 78th Field Artillery was reactivated and transferred to Fort Sill, where it continued in the conduct of Initial Entry Training.

The 428th Field Artillery Brigade consists of three battalions:[3] This Oklahoma-related article is a stub.