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The coat of arms was originally approved for the 27th Field Artillery Regiment, Regular Army Inactive on 31 May 1935. It was redesignated for the 27th Field Artillery Battalion (Armored) on 11 September 1940. It was amended to correct the unit designation to the 27th Field Artillery Battalion on 7 November 1940.
The battalion was constituted during World War I on 5 July 1918 as Battery B of the 27th Field Artillery, a National Army unit, part of the 9th Division.The battery was organized on 2 August at Camp McClellan, Alabama, but remained stateside and was demobilized there after the end of the war on 8 February 1919.
2nd Battalion is a rocket battalion assigned to the 75th Field Artillery Brigade, stationed at Fort Sill, Oklahoma [5] 25th Field Artillery Regiment. 5th Battalion is the cannon battalion assigned to the 3rd Infantry BCT, 10th Mountain Division, stationed at Fort Johnson, Louisiana [15] 27th Field Artillery Regiment
The 4th Battalion of the 27th Field Artillery Regiment (4-27 FA) is a mechanized artillery battalion stationed at Fort Bliss, Texas.One of five combat battalions assigned to the 2nd Brigade Combat Team (1AD), 4-27 FA currently fields approximately 600 artillery and support personnel, operating self-propelled M109A6 howitzers, and providing direct fire support to the brigade.
1st Battalion, 27th Artillery (November 1967-February 1970) [2]: 102 1st Battalion, 77th Artillery [ 2 ] : 106 2nd Battalion, 77th Artillery (October 1966 – 1969) [ 2 ] : 106
The crest of the coat of arms of the 5th Air Defense Artillery Regiment (formerly the 5th U.S. Artillery), depicting hands grasping a wheel with a gun superimposed on it, commemorates the service of Battery C and Battery I, combined under Lt. Richard Metcalf at Spotsylvania, 4–24 May 1864.
1st Battalion, 27th Artillery (April–November 1967) [3]: 102 6th Battalion, 27th Artillery (March 1970-April 1971) [3]: 102 2nd Battalion, 32nd Artillery (October 1969-January 1972) [3]: 103 A Battery, 5th Battalion, 42d Field Artillery (January–March 1972) 44th Signal Battalion (May–June 1972) [3]: 182 82nd Brigade Support Battalion
The 27th earned ten campaign streamers and three Presidential Unit Citations. Upon conclusion of hostilities in Korea, the unit returned to Schofield Barracks. The 2nd Battalion, 27th Infantry Regiment, entered the Vietnam War in January 1966. During their five-year stay in Vietnam, the unit earned two valorous unit citations, and proved to be ...