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The 2/15th Artillery had been redesignated as the 1/15th Artillery prior to 1957 and during this year was redesignated the 7/15th Artillery. In 1966 the 6th battalion was activated and both the 6th & 7th battalions became part of the 15th Artillery. Both the 6/15th and the 7/15th Artillery deployed to Vietnam in 1967. The 6/15th was primarily armed with 105mm field guns supporting an infantry division protecting the South's capital in Military Region III (also called III Corps-Saigon area). The 7/15th was primarily equipped with self propelled (SP's) 8" and 175mm guns. One 175mm SPG was stationed at Firebase Blackhawk located at the top of the Mang Yang Pass in the Central Highlands in South Vietnam. Another at Firebase Oasis near the Cambodian Border in 1969. Nearly 400,000 rounds of 175mm were fired during the battalions four year deployment to South Vietnam.
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