Lineages and Honors Information
Field Artillery

Lineage and Honors Information as of 6 February 2019

206th Field Artillery Regiment

  • Organized in the Arkansas National Guard from existing units and mustered into Federal service 27 September-18 October 1917 at Camp Beauregard, Louisiana, as the 141st Machine Gun Battalion and assigned to the 39th Division
  • Reorganized and redesignated 2 October 1918 as the 141st Antiaircraft Machine Gun Battalion
  • Demobilized 13 January 1919 at Camp Beauregard, Louisiana
  • Reorganized 24 November 1923 in the Arkansas National Guard as the 206th Artillery, Coast Artillery Corps, with Headquarters at Marianna
  • Redesignated 22 April 1924 as the 206th Coast Artillery
  • Inducted into Federal service 6 January 1941 at home stations
  • Regiment broken up 25 March-9 May 1944 and its elements reorganized and redesignated as follows:
  • Headquarters and Headquarters Battery disbanded 25 March 1944 at Fort Bliss, Texas
  • 1st Battalion inactivated 9 May 1944 at Camp Chaffee, Arkansas
  • 2d Battalion as the 597th Antiaircraft Artillery Automatic Weapons Battalion (remainder of regiment – hereafter separate lineages)
  • 1st Battalion, 206th Coast Artillery, disbanded 14 June 1944
  • Reconstituted 25 August 1945 in the Arkansas National Guard
  • Consolidated 21 October 1946 with the 437th Field Artillery Battalion (constituted 27 May 1946 in the Arkansas National Guard and assigned to the 39th Infantry Division) and consolidated unit designated as the 437th Field Artillery Battalion
  • Reorganized and Federally recognized 26 November 1946 with Headquarters at Hazen
  • Ordered into active Federal service 24 September 1957 at home stations; released 22-24 October 1957 from active Federal service and reverted to state control
  • 597th Antiaircraft Artillery Automatic Weapons Battalion inactivated 12 December 1945 at Camp Kilmer, New Jersey
  • Consolidated 21 October 1946 with the 445th Field Artillery Battalion (constituted 27 May 1946 in the Arkansas National Guard and assigned to the 39th Infantry Division) and consolidated unit designated as the 445th Field Artillery Battalion
  • Reorganized and Federally recognized 19 November 1946 with Headquarters at Marianna
  • Ordered into active Federal service 24 September 1957 at home stations; released 23 October 1957 from active Federal service and reverted to state control
  • Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 206th Coast Artillery (reconstituted 25 August 1945 in the Arkansas National Guard), and the 437th and 445th Field Artillery Battalions consolidated 1 June 1959 with the 326th Antiaircraft Artillery Battalion (organized and Federally recognized 22 June 1955 with Headquarters at West Memphis) to form the 206th Artillery, a parent regiment under the Combat Arms Regimental System, to consist of the 1st and 2d Howitzer Battalion and the 3d Rocket Howitzer Battalion, elements of the 39th Infantry Division
  • Reorganized 1 May 1963 to consist of the 2d and 3d Battalions, elements of the 39th Infantry Division
  • Reorganized 1 December 1967 to consist of the 5th Battalion, an element of the 39th Infantry Brigade
  • Redesignated 1 May 1972 as the 206th Field Artillery
  • Withdrawn 1 June 1989 from the Combat Arms Regimental System and reorganized under the United States Army Regimental System
  • Reorganized 30 September 1996 to consist of the 1st Battalion
  • (1st Battalion ordered into active Federal service 12 October 2004 at home stations; released from active Federal service 8 April 2005 and reverted to state control) AAMH-FPO (870-5a)
  • SUBJECT: Statement of Service for the 206th Field Artillery Regiment
  • Reorganized 1 September 2005 to consist of the 1st Battalion, an element of the 39th Infantry Brigade Combat Team
  • Redesignated 1 October 2005 as the 206th Field Artillery Regiment
  • (1st Battalion ordered into active Federal ervice 2 January 2008 at home stations; released from active Federal service 4 February 2009 and reverted to state control)

Campaign Participation Credit

  • World War I
  • Streamer without inscription
  • World War II
  • Aleutian Islands
  • Rhineland
  • Central Europe
  • War on Terrorism
  • Iraq:
  • Transition of Iraq
  • Iraqi Governance
  • Iraqi Surge

Headquarters Battery (Russellville), 1st Battalion, additionally entitled to:

  • Southwest Asia
  • Defense of Saudi Arabia
  • Liberation and Defense of Kuwait
  • Cease-Fire

Decorations

  • Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), Streamer embroidered IRAQ 2004-2005

By Order of the Secretary of the Army:

CHARLES R. BOWERY, JR.
Chief of Military History

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