8th Field Artillery Regiment Battalions
Modern Era, United States, Field Artillery
This page collects the existing battalion illustrations and additional documented historical battalions of the 8th Field Artillery Regiment. The historical entries include inactive units and earlier designations; the regimental image identifies entries without a battalion-specific illustration.
1st Battalion, 8th 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, 8th 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, 8th 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, 8th 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, 8th 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, 8th Field Artillery Regiment
The 6th Missile Battalion, 8th Artillery, was activated at Fort Sill in June 1959 and inactivated in Korea in October 1963. It returned as the 6th Battalion, 8th Artillery, at Fort Carson in March 1967 and was inactivated there in December 1970.
Redesignated as field artillery in September 1971, the battalion returned to active duty with the 7th Infantry Division at Fort Ord on 1 October 1983. That period ended with inactivation on 15 September 1993. Army lineage history, Part 1, PDF page 499.
7th Battalion, 8th Field Artillery Regiment
The 7th Howitzer Battalion, 8th Artillery, was activated at Fort Chaffee, Arkansas, on 23 August 1962. Redesignated as the 7th Battalion in March 1964, it was inactivated at Fort Lewis on 28 July 1971.
Following its September 1971 field artillery redesignation, the battalion was activated with the 25th Infantry Division at Schofield Barracks on 1 October 1983. It was inactivated there on 15 July 1995. Army lineage history, Part 1, PDF page 501.
8th Battalion, 8th Field Artillery Regiment
The headquarters lineage of the 8th Battalion, 8th Artillery, was reconstituted in February 1957 from the former headquarters of the regiment's 2d Battalion. It received the field artillery designation in September 1971.
The 8th Battalion, 8th Field Artillery, was assigned to the 2d Infantry Division and activated in Korea on 1 October 1983, with its organic elements formed at the same time. It was inactivated in Korea on 25 May 1996. Army lineage history, Part 1, PDF page 503.
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.