The Distinctive Unit Insignia (aka unit crest or DUI) of the 130th Field Artillery Regiment was originally approved on 9 January 1929 and was most recently redesignated for the unit on 14 July 1972. Other units for which it was designated include the 130th Field Artillery Battalion (1942), 130th Armored Field Artillery Battalion (1954), and the 130th Artillery Regiment (1961).
Its shield is red to denote the organization is in the Artillery branch. A gold bend (diagonal bar) with three fleurs-de-lis is adapted from the arms of Lorraine, which has a red bend on gold shield and alerions instead of fleurs-de-lis; its embattling to chief (top) is used to signify the capture of Vauquois Hill, and the fleurs-de-lis represent three campaigns. A rattlesnake below the bend denotes Mexican Border service. The Latin motto SEMPER PARIO MELIORES translates as “Always A Little Better.”
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Currently represented only by its 2nd Battalion assigned to the 130th Field Artillery Brigade of the Kansas Army National Guard, the 130th Field Artillery Regiment was originally constituted as the 1st Field Artillery in the Kansas National Guard on 5 May 1917. It was redesignated as the 130th Field Artillery after being drafted into Federal service, and it fought in three World War I campaigns as part of the 35th Division. After being called into Federal service again for World War II, the Regiment was broken up, with its HQ and HQ Battery disbanded and its 1st and 2nd Battalions becoming the 130th and 154th Field Artillery Battalions, both elements of the 35th Infantry Division. Their service during World War II was credited to the Regiment, which earned two campaign streamers (Aleutian Island and an uninscribed European-African-Middle Eastern Theater).
The Regiment was reformed through the consolidation of the two battalions in May 1959 to form the 130th Artillery, a parent regiment in the Combat Arms Regimental System (CARS). It underwent a name change to 130th Field Artillery in 1972, and then was withdrawn from CARS in 1989 and reorganized under the U.S. Army Regimental System consist of the 1st and 2nd Battalions. As mentioned earlier, only the 2nd Battalion—awarded a Meritorious Unit Commendation in 2007 for its between 28 January 2004 and 28 February 2005—remains active as of Summer 2023.