The 67th Air Defense Artillery Regiment Distinctive Unit Insignia (also known as a unit crest or DUI) was approved on 31 March 1931. In the center of the shield is a chevron from the arms of General James Ogeltorpe, the founder of the colony of Georgia, while the crescent is taken from the flag that was displayed at Fort Sullivan in South Carolina by Colonel (later General) William Moultrie when the British attempted to capture Charleston in 1776. The Regimental motto is the Latin phrase MEMOR ET FIDELIS, or “Mindful And Faithful.”
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. 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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Originally constituted on 2 May 1918 in the Regular Army as the 67th Artillery (Coast Artillery Corps) and organized on 21 May at Fort Winfield Scott in California, the 67th Air Defense Artillery Regiment earned a World War I streamer (without inscription) before its demobilization in April 1919. It was reconstituted as the 67th Coast Artillery on 22 January 1926, but it was not activated until 10 February 1941 (although its 1st Battalion was activated the previous July).
As was the case with many Regiments, it was broken up during the war (23 May 1944), with its components redesignated and reassigned; many of them would subsequently be consolidated, reorganized, and redesignated on 25 August 1961 as the 67th Artillery (67th Air Defense Artillery after September 1971). The battle record of the units in the Regiment’s lineage includes seven World War II campaigns stretching from Africa to Italy to France and Central Europe.
The Regiment was not deployed for combat in the Korean War, with many of its Battalions (1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 7th, and perhaps more) deployed for stints in Germany during the Cold War. With the collapse of the Soviet Union and the threat of nuclear ballistic missile attack almost completely eliminated, the need for the Regiment’s assets became negligible; by the early 1990s, all of its Battalions had been inactivated.