190th Field Artillery Unit Crest (Mission With Honor)

Often called a unit crest or a DUI, the Distinctive Unit Insignia of the 190th Field Artillery Regiment was originally designed and approved for the 639th Field Artillery Battalion on 13 January 1955. It was redesignated for the 190th Artillery Regiment on 7 April 1961. It was then redesignated for the 190th Field Artillery Regiment with an effective date of 1 October 1995.

The 190th Field Artillery Regiment DUI a red shield (denoting Artillery) with a yellow pale (vertical stripe) and yellow stylized mountains, both with blue charges (images) superimposed on them. Montana’s Flathead Valley, home of the headquarters of the original battalion, is represented by the yellow pale; the stylized mountains stand for the Kootenai Mountains to the west and the Swan Mountains to the east.

The peaks, in combination with the top blue lines, also suggest arrowheads like the Arrowhead devices the unit’s predecessor was awarded for taking part in assault landings on during the New Guinea and Southern Philippine campaigns. The bottom blue stripes are for Infantry service (blue is the color of Infantry) in both World Wars. “Mission With Honor” is the Regimental motto.

The unit that eventually became the 190th Field Artillery Regiment was organized between 1884 and 1887 in the Montana National Guard as the 1st Regiment of Infantry—and more than one hundred years would elapse before it was finally designated as a Field Artillery organization. All of its battle honors and military decorations—two campaigns in the Philippine Insurrection, an uninscribed WWI Victory streamer, and four Asiatic-Pacific campaigns in World War, completed with a Presidential Unit Citation and a Philippine Presidential Unit Citation—were earned while it was designated as an Infantry unit.

It wasn’t until 1995 that it was redesignated from the 163rd Infantry to form both the 163rd Infantry and the 190th Field Artillery consisting of the 1st Battalion, an element of the 163rd Armored Brigade—and the 163rd Armored Brigade was inactivated shortly after that, along with the newly created 190th Field Artillery Regiment.

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The Crest in the Picture is the one you will recieve.