80th Field Artillery Unit Crest (No Motto)

The 80th Field Artillery Regiment Distinctive Unit Insignia, frequently called a unit crest or a DUI for short—was approved for wear on 14 November 1932. It was redesignated for the 80th Field Artillery Battalion (December 1942), 80th Artillery (November 1958), and for the 80th Field Artillery Regiment on 1 September 1971. Scarlet and yellow on the insignia reveal the dual character of the Regiment’s formation (see below). The fess dancetté (jagged horizontal bar) is taken from the coat of arms of the Oglethorpe family. In the canton is a reference to the coat of arms of the 11th Cavalry, the unit from which personnel were taken to from the 80th’s precursor unit the 22nd Cavalry Regiment.

Like a great many Field Artillery units formed in 1916, the 80th Field Artillery started out as a Cavalry unit, the 22nd Cavalry, on 1 July 1916 at Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia. It was converted to 80th Field Artillery on 1 November 1917, a date on which scores of Cavalry units were changed to Field Artillery, and was assigned to the 7th Division. It would earn an uninscribed World War I Victory streamer for is contributions to the Division and the war effort and was subsequently inactivated in September 1921.

Before the U.S. entered World War II, the Regiment was redesignated as the 80th Field Artillery Battalion and deployed to the Pacific Theater as part of the 6th Infantry Division. Although it would take part in only two campaigns, New Guinea and Luzon, the Battalion’s performance was recognized with a Presidential Unit Citation and a Philippine Presidential Unit Citation. The Battalion would be redesignated as a Regiment in the Combat Arms Regimental System (CARS) in July 1959 and then withdrawn from it in 1990 to be reorganized in the U.S. Army Regimental system; it was transferred to the U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command at the same time and its sole active battalion, the 2nd, was tasked with training new recruits assigned to Field Artillery.

As of 2019, the 80th Field Artillery Regiment has no active units in service.