Modern Era, United States, Field Artillery
This page collects the existing battalion illustrations and additional documented historical battalions of the 4th Field Artillery Regiment. The historical entries include inactive units and earlier designations; the regimental image identifies entries without a battalion-specific illustration.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The 8th Howitzer Battalion, 4th Artillery, was activated at Fort Riley with the 1st Infantry Division in April 1960 and inactivated at Fort Sill in January 1964. It returned as the 8th Battalion, 4th Artillery, at Fort Sill on 1 March 1967 and served in Vietnam.
It became the 8th Battalion, 4th Field Artillery, in September 1971 and was redesignated as the 4th Battalion, 4th Field Artillery, on 13 September 1972. This is an earlier designation in the 4th Battalion's lineage, rather than an additional enduring battalion. Army lineage history, Part 1, PDF page 423.
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.