21st Field Artillery Regiment

21st Field Artillery Regiment

Coat of arms
Active 1916-1921
1939-1946
1948-1950
1951-1953
1954-1957
Country  United States
Branch Army
Type Field artillery
Motto Progressi Sunt (They Have Advanced)
Insignia
Distinctive unit insignia
U.S. Field Artillery Regiments
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The 21st Field Artillery Regiment is a field artillery regiment of the United States Army first formed in 1916. A parent regiment under the U.S. Army Regimental System, all components of the regiment are currently inactive. The regiment's last active element, 1st Battalion 21st Field Artillery Regiment (United States), inactivated on 12 June 2014.[1]

Further Combat Service by Regimental Elements

The 1st Battalion, 21st Field Artillery served in Vietnam with the 1st Cavalry Division.

Battery A, 21st Field Artillery served in Operation Desert Storm as the 1st Cavalry Division's general support MLRS battery.

Lineage & Honors

Lineage

Campaign Participation Credit

Decorations

Heraldry

Distinctive unit insignia

A Gold color metal and enamel device 1 3/32 inches (2.78 cm) in height overall consisting of a shield blazoned: Argent a bend Gules, in base an eagle close of the last gorged with a collar Or bearing a Lorraine cross of the second. On a sinister canton of the second a demi-sun Gold charged with an Aztec banner Vert garnished of the field (for the 3rd Field Artillery).

The regiment was formed from the 3rd Field Artillery which is shown on the canton. The red bend denotes artillery support. The eagle with collar, one of the supporters of the arms of St. Mihiel, symbolizes the most important engagement in which the regiment participated.

The distinctive unit insignia was originally approved for the 21st Field Artillery Regiment on 27 November 1939. It was redesignated for the 21st Field Artillery Battalion on 13 December 1940. The insignia was redesignated for the 21st Artillery Regiment on 30 August 1957. Effective 1 September 1971, the insignia was redesignated for the 21st Field Artillery Regiment.

Coat of arms

Current configuration

Honest John MGR-1, Germany, 1960
  In the June 1965 Order of Battle- USAREUR/7th Army Non-divisional Artillery, the 3rd MSL Bn, 21st FA (Honest John) 
was included in the VII Corps Artillery, 72nd Field Artillery group, Larson Bks, Kitzingen, Germany.
  In the September 1970 Order of Battle- USAREUR/7th Army Non-divisional Artillery, the 3rd MSL Bn, 21st FA (Honest John) 
was included in VII Corps Artillery, 72nd Field Artillery group, Fiori Bks, Aschaffenburg, Germany
  The unit was inactivated September 30, 1974.

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See also

References

 This article incorporates public domain material from the United States Army Institute of Heraldry document "21st Field Artillery Regiment".

External links

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