The 152nd Field Artillery Regiment Distinctive Unit Insignia, also called a unit crest or a DUI, was originally approved for the 152nd Field Artillery Regiment on 24 January 1930. It has been redesignated three times since then: for the 152nd Field Artillery Battalion in 1955, for the 152nd Artillery in 1961, and for the 152nd Field Artillery Regiment in 1972. Its red shield denotes the organization is in the Artillery branch, and the projectile with lightning streaks emanating from it symbolizes the power and deadliness of Artillery Fire. "On The Way," the unit motto, is a cheeky description of an Artillery round that has just been fired.
Full guidance on wear of the DUI is found in DA Pamphlet 670-1, Section 21-22, "Distinctive unit insignia" and 21–3(d) and (e), "Beret" and "Garrison Cap," respectively.
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On 1 September 2008, the 152nd Field Artillery Regiment was converted, reorganized, and redesignated as the 185th Engineer Company, ending nearly 86 years of service in the Maine National Guard as an Artillery unit. It was originally organized and Federally recognized on 15 May 1922 in the Maine National Guard as the 1st Battalion, 152nd Field Artillery, an element of the 43rd Division. (The units that eventually made the Battery B, 1st Battalion after reorganization in the U.S. Army Regimental System are credited with a half-dozen World War I campaigns earned prior to the Regiment’s organization). It was expanded and reorganized as the 152nd Field Artillery in April 1929.
After induction in Federal service in February 1941, the 152nd Artillery—except for the 2nd Battalion—was redesignated as the 203d Field artillery—and relieved from assignment to the 43rd division; its 2nd Battalion was concurrently reorganized and redesignated as the 152nd Field Artillery Battalion and began a separate lineage. In March 1943, the 203rd Field Artillery—less its Headquarters Battery and 2nd Battalion—were reorganized and redesignated as the 203rd Field Artillery Battalion, with its HQ Battery redesignated as HQ and HQ Battery, 203rd Field Artillery Group and no longer a part of the 152nd Field Artillery Regiment lineage. The units that did remain in the lineage fought in five World War II campaigns in the European-African-Middle Eastern Theater that were credited to the Regiment.
The 203rd Field Artillery Battalion was inactivated in October 1945 and was subsequently redesignated as the 152nd Field Artillery Battalion in May 1946 (reorganized and Federally recognized in January 1947). In May 1959, the Battalion was redesignated as the 152nd Field Artillery, a parent regiment in the Combat Arms Regimental System (CARS), and was reorganized (but not redesignated) several times over the next dozen years. It was renamed the 153nd Field Artillery in 1972, then withdrawn from CARS in 1989 and reorganized in the U.S. Army Regimental System; Battery A, 1st Battalion in the new organization would deploy to Southwest Asia and take part in three campaigns and earn a Meritorious Unit Commendation between 1990 and 1991.
After being redesignated as the 152nd Field Artillery Regiment in October 2005, the Army announced in 2006 plans to change its force structure, and on 1 September 2008 the venerable 152nd Field Artillery Regiment was converted, reorganized, and redesignated as the 185th Engineer Company. The new unit, officially nicknamed “County Thunder," inherited the campaign credits and military decorations of the Regiment, which included a Meritorious Unit Commendation awarded to Company A, 1st Battalion for service in Iraq in 2004.