[1] In the same year, the Norwich Cadets ceased being part of the National Guard and became a Reserve Officers' Training Corps unit.

The 206th received the heraldry of the 251st Field Artillery Battalion, which had served in the Pacific during World War II,[3] although it did not perpetuate the lineage of the 251st.

The 206th went to Germany with the division and when the active service term of its Guardsmen ended they returned to Vermont, forming the 206th Field Artillery Battalion in the replacement National Guard of the United States (NGUS).

[12] The 206th continued as part of the Vermont National Guard and on 1 January 1955 its headquarters location was changed to Winooski.

[13] The brigade joined the 50th Armored Division on 1 February 1968 during another National Guard reorganization, but on 1 June 1975 the battalion became a nondivisional unit.

[1] Roughly half of the 1st Battalion, 86th Field Artillery, 193 personnel, were mobilized for active duty in January 2004 as Task Force Redleg.

With their M109A5 155 mm self-propelled howitzers redundant for counterinsurgency warfare, the detachment of the battalion received six weeks of military police training at Fort Dix and arrived in Iraq in March.

[16] The 1st Battalion detachment lost three killed in action, one died of natural causes,[17] and 22 wounded during the nearly yearlong deployment.

[18] After the detachment returned to Vermont in February 2005,[19] the battalion reequipped with 105 mm towed howitzers after the 2006 annual training.

A Gold color metal and enamel device 1 1/16 inches (2.70 cm) in height overall consisting of a shield blazoned: Gules on a pile Or, between two lions rampant respecting each other of the last a shellburst Proper.

The gold pile is representative of the entering wedge driven into enemy territory by the fire of the organization, which is illustrated by the shellburst.