The 1st Infantry Division Artillery will host a change of
command ceremony at 10 a.m. Sept. 22 on Fort Riley’s Cavalry Parade Field.
Col. Thomas R. Bolen will relinquish command to Col. Rory A. Crooks after
nearly two years in command of DIVARTY. Bolen has been leading the DIVARTY
since its reactivation in October 2015.
Bolen will now go to Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, to serve as the assistant
deputy commandant of the Command and General Staff College.
Crooks comes to DIVARTY from the U.S. Army War College, where he served as
the director of the International Fellows Program.
DIVARTY was one of 10 artillery units reactivated throughout the Army in
2015. The unit inactivated 10 years prior when the 1st Inf. Div. was
headquartered in Germany.