123rd Field Artillery Regiment

Lineage & Honors

Lineage

• Constituted 4 May 1882 in the Illinois National Guard as the 6th Infantry Regiment and organized from existing units in northwestern Illinois.
• Mustered into Federal service 11 May 1898 as the 6th Illinois Volunteer Infantry; mustered out of Federal service 25 November 1898 at Springfield
• Reorganized in 1903 in the Illinois National Guard as the 6th Infantry
• Mustered into Federal service 25 April 1917 at home stations; drafted into Federal service 5 August 1917.
• Converted, reorganized and redesignated 19 September 1917 as the 123d Field Artillery and assigned to the 33d Division
• Demobilized 9 June 1919 at Camp Grant, Illinois
• Reorganized 17 August 1921 in the Illinois National Guard as the 1st Battalion, 123d Field Artillery, an element of the 33d Division.
• Expanded, reorganized, and redesignated 3 June 1936 as the 123d Field Artillery; Headquarters Federally recognized 26 July 1936 at Monmouth
• Inducted into Federal service 5 March 1941 at home stations
• Regiment broken up 12 February–18 April 1942 and its elements reorganized and redesignated as follows:

• After 18 April 1942 the above units underwent changes as follows:

• 123d Field Artillery Battalion and the 133d Antiaircraft Artillery Battalion consolidated 1 March 1959 to form the 123d Artillery, a parent regiment under the Combat Arms Regimental System, to consist of the 1st Rocket Howitzer Battalion and the 2d Howitzer Battalion, elements of the 33d Infantry Division
• Reorganized 1 April 1963 to consist of the 1st and 2d Battalions, elements of the 33d Infantry Division
• Reorganized 1 February 1968 to consist of the 2d Battalion, an element of the 47th Infantry Division
• Redesignated 1 May 1972 as the 123d Field Artillery
• Withdrawn 5 February 1987 from the Combat Arms Regimental System and reorganized under the United States Army Regimental System
• Reorganized 10 February 1991 to consist of the 2d Battalion, an element of the 34th Infantry Division
• Reorganized 1 October 1996 to consist of the 2d Battalion, an element of the 34th Infantry Division, and the 3d Battalion
• Reorganized 1 October 1997 to consist of the 2d and 3d Battalions
• Redesignated 1 October 2005 as the 123d Field Artillery Regiment
• Reorganized 1 September 2006 to consist of the 2d Battalion
• Ordered into active Federal service 20 May 2010 at home stations; released from active Federal service 23 June 2011 and reverted to state control

  Campaign Participation Credit

• War with Spain: Puerto Rico
• World War I: St. Mihiel; Meuse-Argonne; Lorraine 1918
• World War II: New Guinea; Normandy; Northern France; Rhineland; Luzon; Ardennes-Alsace; Central Europe
• War on Terrorism; Campaigns to be determined

  Decorations

• Philippine Presidential Unit Citation, Streamer embroidered 17 OCTOBER 1944 TO 4 JULY 1945

  Heraldry

Distinctive unit insignia

Coat of arms