18th Field Artillery Battalion Unit Crest (No Motto)

The 18th Field Artillery Regiment Distinctive Unit Insignia, also called a unit crest or a DUI, was originally approved while the unit carried that same designation on 2 October 1923. It underwent several amendments and redesignations as the unit’s title changed. Its blue background and white diagonal stripes are adapted from the Shoulder Sleeve Insignia of the 3rd Division, the unit to which it was assigned in World War I. The bend and bendlets are taken from the coat of arms of Champagne, in honor of its French Croix de Guerre with Gilt star it won in fighting near the town. Its canton pays homage to the 5th Field Artillery, with the fishhook and star taken from that organization’s coat of arms; the fishhook simulates the Union line at the Battle of Gettysburg, while the badge of Major General Henry Slocum’s XII Corps was a star.

Since it was originally constituted in the Regular Army as Battery A, 18th Field Artillery, the Regiment has undergone a sizable number of redesignations/reorganizations, activations/inactivations, and reassignments to different commanding units. In 1959 the unit was designated as the 18th Artillery, a parent regiment in the Combat Arms Regimental System; in 1988 it was withdrawn from CARS and designated the 18th Field Artillery Regiment in the U.S. Army Regimental System.

The Regiment’s battle honors include five campaign streamers and a French Croix de Guerre with Gilt star from World War I; a half-dozen campaign credits in World War II and a Presidential Unit Citation for the Battle of the Bulge; thirteen campaigns during the Vietnam War and a Presidential Unit Citation (for 3rd Battalion at Pleiku Province). In the mid-1990s, the Headquarters and Headquarters Battalion (HHB) received an Army Superior Unit Award (for service between April and October 1997), and during the War on Terrorism the 2nd Battalion (the only active Battalion remaining in the Regiment) received a Valorous Unit Award and a Meritorious Unit Commendation, both issued in 2009 for service in 2003.

The DUI is the picture is the one you will receive.