3rd Field Artillery Regiment Battalions
Modern Era, United States, Field Artillery
This page collects the existing battalion illustrations and additional documented historical battalions of the 3d Field Artillery Regiment. The historical entries include inactive units and earlier designations; the regimental image identifies entries without a battalion-specific illustration.
1st Battalion, 3rd Field Artillery Regiment
This card isolates the 1st Battalion symbol inside the regiment's five-battalion set. Use the direct battalion link below to open the stand-alone reference page for this battalion.
2d Battalion, 3rd Field Artillery Regiment
This card isolates the 2d Battalion symbol inside the regiment's five-battalion set. Use the direct battalion link below to open the stand-alone reference page for this battalion.
3d Battalion, 3rd Field Artillery Regiment
This card isolates the 3d Battalion symbol inside the regiment's five-battalion set. Use the direct battalion link below to open the stand-alone reference page for this battalion.
4th Battalion, 3rd Field Artillery Regiment
This card isolates the 4th Battalion symbol inside the regiment's five-battalion set. Use the direct battalion link below to open the stand-alone reference page for this battalion.
5th Battalion, 3rd Field Artillery Regiment
This card isolates the 5th Battalion symbol inside the regiment's five-battalion set. Use the direct battalion link below to open the stand-alone reference page for this battalion.
6th Battalion, 3d Field Artillery Regiment
The 6th Missile Battalion, 3d Artillery, incorporated the former Battery F, 3d Field Artillery, in January 1960. Its organic elements had been activated in September 1958. The battalion was inactivated at Chicago on 1 June 1965.
The field artillery lineage became the 6th Missile Battalion, 3d Field Artillery, on 1 September 1971. It received the shorter designation 6th Battalion, 3d Field Artillery, on 15 September 1983; the Army's lineage history records it as inactive. Army lineage history, Part 1, PDF page 409.
8th Battalion, 3d Field Artillery Regiment
The 8th Missile Battalion, 3d Artillery, was activated at Fort Bliss on 1 February 1961. Its headquarters incorporated the former Headquarters Battery, 3d Artillery Group, later that year, and the battalion designation was shortened in June 1968.
On 1 September 1971 its field artillery component became the 8th Battalion, 3d Field Artillery, and was inactivated on Okinawa. Its air defense component continued separately as the 8th Battalion, 3d Air Defense Artillery. Army lineage history, Part 1, PDF page 411.
Research note: The added historical entries cite their sources individually. Regimental illustrations are labeled as such. An earlier battalion designation can continue through another battalion or a separate battery; these relationships are identified in the entries. These additions follow Janice E. McKenney, Field Artillery (U.S. Army Center of Military History, 2010), Parts 1 and 2. The published lineages principally cover developments through 2003; they are not a current order of battle. The original five symbol cards retain their links to individual reference pages.