28th Field Artillery Regiment

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28th Field Artillery Regiment
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Coat of arms
Active1918
CountryFlag of the United States.svg  United States
BranchArmy
Type Field artillery
Motto(s)We Support the Line
Insignia
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The 28th Field Artillery Regiment is a field artillery regiment of the United States Army, first constituted in 1918 in the National Army (USA).

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Lineage

Constituted 5 July 1918 in the National Army as the 28th Field Artillery and assigned to the 10th Division. Organized 10 August 1918 at Camp Funston, Kansas.

Relieved 1 August 1957 from assignment to the 8th Infantry Division; concurrently, reorganized and redesignated as the 28th Artillery, a parent regiment under the Combat Arms Regimental System. Redesignated 1 September 1971 as the 28th Field Artillery.

Distinctive unit insignia

A Gold color metal and enamel device 1+18 inches (2.9 cm) in height overall consisting of a shield blazoned: Gules, a chevron Argent overall an artillery shell Or that portion on the chevron fimbriated of the field. Attached below the shield a Red scroll inscribed “WE SUPPORT THE LINE” in Gold letters.

The shield is scarlet for Artillery. The white chevron representative of a rafter or support, with the shell, represents support of the line.

The distinctive unit insignia was originally approved for the 28th Field Artillery Regiment on 18 January 1940. It was amended to revise the description on 28 August 1940. The insignia was redesignated for the 28th Field Artillery Battalion on 26 February 1941. It was redesignated for the 28th Artillery Regiment on 4 August 1958. It was redesignated for the 28th Field Artillery Regiment on 1 September 1971. The insignia was redesignated for the 28th Field Artillery Regiment on 5 February 1973.

Coat of arms

Gules, a chevron Argent overall an artillery shell Or that portion on the chevron fimbriated of the field.

On a wreath of the colors Or and Gules, in front of a palmetto branch of the first bearing in chief three gunstones, a lion passant guardant of the second armed and langued Azure. Motto WE SUPPORT THE LINE.

The shield is scarlet for Artillery. The white chevron representative of a rafter or support, with the shell, represents support of the line.

The lion is from the coat of arms of Normandy. It refers to combat service in Normandy in World War II for which the unit was awarded the French Croix de Guerre with Palm. The gold palm is for victory. In addition, it simulates a bomb burst and refers to artillery fire. The three gunstones stand for the unit's participation in the campaigns in Northern France, the Rhineland and Central Europe.

The coat of arms was originally approved for the 28th Field Artillery Regiment on 18 January 1940. It was amended to revise the blazon of the shield on 28 August 1940. The insignia was redesignated for the 28th Field Artillery Battalion on 26 February 1941. It was redesignated for the 28th Artillery Regiment on 4 August 1958. It was amended to add a crest on 2 October 1964. It was redesignated for the 28th Field Artillery Regiment on 1 September 1971. The insignia was redesignated for the 28th Field Artillery Regiment on 5 February 1973.

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