The 132nd Field Artillery Distinctive Unit Insignia, also known as a “unit crest” or a DUI, was approved on 20 June 1928. Its red shield denotes the organization as an Artillery unit, and the wavy bend simulates the Rio Grande River. The use of yellow in the insignia means the unit is descended from a Cavalry unit and that it was designated as such when serving at the border. The palm tree stands for service in the War With Spain, and the fleur-de-lis is for service in France during World War I. FIAT ROTAE ROTARE is Latin for “Let The Wheels Keep Rolling.”
Distinctive Unit Insignias are worn by all Soldiers (except General Officers) in units that have been authorized to be issued the device. It is worn centered on the shoulder loops of the Army Green Service Uniform (AGSU) and the blue Army Service Uniform (ASU, Enlisted only) with the base of the insignia toward the outside shoulder seam. DUIs are not worn on the Dress variations of either uniform, however.
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Nine companies were organized in 1880 to form the First Regiment Cavalry, Texas Volunteer Guard, the progenitor of the 132nd Field Artillery Regiment. Mustered into Federal service for the War With Spain in 1898, it was redesignated as First Regiment, Texas Cavalry, U.S. Volunteers, but did not serve outside the United States and thus was awarded an uninscribed Spanish-American War campaign streamer.
Its next callup for Federal service was in 1916 when it was assigned Mexican Border duty from July of that year to March 1917. Redesignated as the 132nd Field Artillery following this border duty, the Regiment was assigned to the 36th Division. Though it was deployed to France, it did not see combat before the Armistice was signed, and its World War I campaign streamer is embroidered with the generic description of “France, 1918.”
The Regiment was broken up after being drafted into service for World War II, with its HQ disbanded, its 1st Battalion becoming the 132nd Field Artillery Battalion, and its 2nd Battalion being redesignated as the 155th Field Artillery Battalion. In all, the Regiment was credited with participation in seven campaigns in the European-African-Middle Eastern Theater, picking up three Arrowhead devices for taking part in a trio of assault landings in Italy and France.
Following the war, the various components of the Regiments would be consolidated to reform the 132nd under the designation 132nd Artillery in March 1959, and in the ensuring years the Battalion were called into service but never deployed into a combat zone before the last battalion was inactivated 1976, leaving the Regiment ever since.