79th Field Artillery Regiment

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79th Field Artillery Regiment
Coat of arms
Active	1916
Country	United States
Branch	Army
Type	Field artillery
Motto(s)	"Our Country – Our Regiment"
Commanders
Notable commanders	Charles D. Rhodes
Insignia
Distinctive unit insignia

Military unit

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The 79th Field Artillery Regiment is a field artillery regiment of the United States Army. First constituted 1916 in the Regular Army.

History

Pershing

2nd Missile Battalion, 79th Artillery

The 2nd Missile Battalion, 79th Artillery was organized at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, in February 1964. The battalion was to be equipped with the Pershing missile and deployed to South Korea.

The battalion underwent operational testing at Fort Wingate, New Mexico and fired missiles on 28 January 1965 and 3 February 1965. The 251st Ordnance Detachment was activated in November 1964 under the Ordnance Guided Missile School at Redstone Arsenal, Alabama and commanded by 2nd Lt. David M. McClellan. The 251st transferred to Fort Sill, Oklahoma, in January 1966 to support the 2/79th.

The Korean deployment was placed on hold and the battalion supported missile shoots from the 56th Artillery Group and the two German Air Force squadrons at Black Mesa Test Range, Blanding and Green River Launch Complex in Utah. The 2/79th was then scheduled for deployment in September 1968 but transport was retasked to provide troop shipments to Vietnam. The war in Vietnam escalated, the deployment was canceled and the 2/79th Artillery and 251st Ordnance were inactivated in 1968.

Commanders

Lt. Col. Desmond Sveiven
Lt. Col. Louis G. (Gus) Hergert, Jr.

Lineage

Constituted 1 July 1916 in the Regular Army as the 21st Cavalry
Organized 1 June 1917 at Fort Riley, Kansas
Converted and redesignated 1 November 1917 as the 79th Field Artillery
Assigned 6 December 1917 to the 7th Division
Inactivated 14 September 1921 at Camp Meade, Maryland, and relieved from assignment to the 7th Division
Assigned 1 January 1930 to the 7th Division
Relieved 16 October 1939 from assignment to the 7th Division
1st Battalion activated 1 June 1940 at Fort Bragg, North Carolina
Regiment (less 1st Battalion) activated 1 June 1941 at Fort Bragg, North Carolina
Regiment broken up 23 February 1943 and its elements reorganized and redesignated as follows:
- Headquarters and Headquarters Battery as Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 79th Field Artillery Group
- 1st Battalion as the 697th Field Artillery Battalion
- 2d Battalion as the 698th Field Artillery Battalion
After 23 February 1943 the above units underwent changes as follows:
- Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 79th Field Artillery Group, inactivated 30 June 1946 in Germany
- 697th Field Artillery Battalion inactivated 12 February 1946 at Camp Kilmer, New Jersey
Redesignated 5 February 1947 as the 555th Field Artillery Battalion
Activated 1 January 1949 in Korea
Assigned 10 October 1954 to the 71st Infantry Division
Inactivated 15 September 1956 at Fort Lewis, Washington
Relieved 16 July 1957 from assignment to the 71st Infantry Division
698th Field Artillery Battalion inactivated 14 February 1946 at Camp Kilmer, New Jersey
Redesignated 5 February 1947 as the 567th Field Artillery Battalion
Activated 20 March 1951 at Camp Polk, Louisiana
Inactivated 16 January 1956 in Germany
Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 79th Field Artillery Group, and the 555th and 567th Field Artillery Battalions consolidated, reorganized, and redesignated 16 July 1957 as the 79th Artillery, a parent regiment under the Combat Arms Regimental System
Redesignated 1 September 1971 as the 79th Field Artillery
Withdrawn 16 August 1995 from the Combat Arms Regimental System and reorganized under the United States Army Regimental System; concurrently assigned to the United States Army Training and Doctrine Command

Heraldry

Distinctive unit insignia

Description: A gold color metal and enamel device 1+5⁄32 inches (2.9 cm) in height overall consisting of the shield and crest of the coat of arms.

Symbolism: The 21st Cavalry was organized in June 1917 from the 13th Cavalry, and converted into Field Artillery as the 79th, in November of the same year. Its original Cavalry character is shown by the color of the field, its Field Artillery service by the red bend. The canton shows a device from the badge of the 13th Cavalry, the parent organization. The regiment insignia in base is the shoulder sleeve insignia of the 7th Division with colors reversed, surrounded by a green band.

Background: The distinctive unit insignia was originally approved for the 79th Field Artillery Regiment on 22 December 1928. It was redesignated for the 79th Artillery Regiment on 14 April 1958. The insignia was redesignated effective 1 September 1971, for the 79th Field Artillery Regiment.

Coat of arms

Blazon

Shield: Or, a bend Gules, on a sinister canton of the like a sun in splendor of the field charged with the numeral “13” Sable (for the 13th Cavalry), in base the insignia of the regiment Proper (a Red hour-glass on a Black circle surrounded by a Green band).

Crest: On a wreath of the colors Or and Gules, a horse's head armored Proper.

Motto: "Our Country – Our Regiment."

Symbolism

Shield: The 21st Cavalry was organized in June 1917 from the 13th Cavalry, and converted into Field Artillery as the 79th, in November of the same year. Its original Cavalry character is shown by the color of the field, its Field Artillery service by the red bend. The canton shows a device from the badge of the 13th Cavalry, the parent organization. The regiment insignia in base is the shoulder sleeve insignia of the 7th Division with colors reversed, surrounded by a green band.

Crest: The armored horse's head represents Cavalry and Armor, respectively.

Background: The coat of arms was originally approved for the 79th Field Artillery Regiment on 1 September 1920. It was redesignated for the 79th Artillery Regiment on 14 April 1958. The insignia was redesignated effective 1 September 1971, for the 79th Field Artillery Regiment

Current configuration

Campaign participation credit

World War I: Streamer without inscription
World War II: Naples-Foggia; Rome-Arno; North Apennines; Normandy; Northern France; Rhineland; Ardennes-Alsace; Central Europe
Korean War: UN Defensive; UN Offensive; CCF Intervention; First UN Counteroffensive; CCF Spring Offensive; UN Summer-Fall Offensive; Second Korean Winter; Korea, Summer-Fall 1952; Third Korean Winter; Korea, Summer 1953
Vietnam: Counteroffensive, Phase VII; Consolidation I; Consolidation II; Cease-Fire

Decorations

Presidential Unit Citation (Army) for LONG BINH

References

This article incorporates public domain material from 79th Field Artillery Regiment. United States Army Institute of Heraldry.

Burns, Steven T. (2014). History of the Pershing Missile Systems. ISBN 978-1-63318-129-8.

https://tioh.army.mil/Catalog/HeraldryMulti.aspx?CategoryId=3456

External links

http://www.history.army.mil/html/forcestruc/lineages/branches/fa/default.htm Archived 22 May 2011 at the Wayback Machine

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