U.S. ARMY 114TH FIELD ARTILLERY REGIMENT UNIT CREST (DUI)

The Distinctive Unit Insignia (DUI) of the 114th Field Artillery Regiment was originally approved on 25 September 1936. It was redesignated for the 114th Field Artillery Battalion on 7 September 1949, for the 114th Artillery Regiment on 19 July 1960, and for the 114th Field Artillery Regiment on 1 August 1972. Its description was amended in an update made on 1 November 2004.

A red shield is used for the insignia to denote the organization is in the Artillery branch. A gold dragon in the center is an analog to the function of artillery—its fiery breath that decimates its opponents is similar to the firepower unleashed from the barrels of artillery pieces. Absent from the DUI, also called a unit crest, is the 114th FA Regiment motto of AD SUMMA VIRTUS, Latin for “Courage To The Last.”

You can find guidance on wear of the DUI 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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The 114th Field Artillery Regiment was originally organized in the Mississippi National Guard in April 1917 as the 1st Field Artillery. It was reorganized and redesignated as the 140th Field Artillery on 27 September 2017 and assigned to the 64th Field Artillery Brigade, 39th Division. The 39th served as a training division for troops to be used as replacements, and the Division and its component units’ contributions to victory was recognized with an uninscribed World War I streamer.

It was first designated as a Field Artillery regiment with its current numerical designation when the 1st Battalion, 114th Field Artillery was expanded, reorganized, and redesignated as the 114th Field Artillery in November 1932. After induction into Federal service in 1940, the regiment was broken up: Minus its 1st Battalion, it became the 137th Field Artillery, while the 1st Battalion, 114th Field Artillery was simultaneously reorganized and redesignated as the 114th Field Artillery Battalion, an element of the 31st Infantry Division.

These organizational changes were the first of a flood of reorganizations/redesignations/consolidations/expansions to the Regiment and its various offshoots and are far too convoluted to list here, but those interested can view them in the 2010 book Field Artillery: Part 2 from the U.S. Center of Military History Lineage Series. Ultimately, units in the 114th Field Artillery’s lineage fought in seven World War II campaigns, two in the Asiatic-Pacific and five in the European-African-Middle Eastern Theater, with the Regiment also earning credit for a Philippine Presidential Unit Citation (Battery A was individually awarded a Presidential Unit Citation with a streamer embroidered MINDANAO).

Following the war, many of the units that had been formed from the lineage of the 114th Field Artillery were reunited with the creation of the 114th Artillery, a parent regiment under the Combat Arms Regimental System (CARS). It would be again be designated as the 114th Field Artillery in 1972, and in 1989 was withdrawn from CARS and reorganized under the U.S. Army Regimental System; it was subsequently reorganized in 1994 to consist of the 1st and 2nd Battalions.

As of Autumn 2023, only the 2nd Battalion, 114th Field Artillery Regiment is active; it is assigned to the 155th Armored Brigade Combat Team, Mississippi Army National Guard and headquartered in Starkville.

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