Authenticité (Zaire) Authenticité (Zaire) Authenticité, sometimes Zairianisation in English, was an official state ideology of the Mobutu regime that originated in the late 1960s and early 1970s in what was first the Republic of Congo-Léopoldville, later renamed Zaire. The authenticity campaign was an effort to rid the country of the lingering vestiges of colonialism and the continuing influence of Western culture and to create a more centralized and singular national identity. The policy, as implemented, included numerous changes to the state and to private life, including the renaming of the Congo and its cities, as well as an eventual mandate that Zairians
27th Field Artillery Regiment allotted to the Regular Army, assigned to the 198th Infantry Brigade, and activated at Fort Hood, Texas Inactivated 12 May 1967 at Fort Hood, Texas, and relieved from assignment to the 198th Infantry Brigade Redesignated 1 September 1971 as the 3d Battalion, 27th Field Artillery Activated 1 March 1988 at Fort Bragg, North Carolina Redesignated 1 October 2005 as the 3d Battalion, 27th Field Artillery Regiment World War II Southwest Asia War on Terrorism 27th Field Artillery Regiment The 27th Field Artillery Regiment is a field artillery regiment of the United States Army, first Constituted in 1918 in the National