The unit was reorganized and redesignated as Battery A, 22d Armored Field Artillery Battalion.

The unit was inactivated on 20 May 1949 in Hersfeld, Germany; concurrently converted and redesignated as Battery A, 22d Armored Field Artillery Battalion.

During this time, it assumed the BOLC Phase II mission where it developed, trained and mentored the future junior officers of the Army.

A Gold color metal and enamel device 1 inch (2.54 cm) in height consisting of a shield blazoned: Gules, on a canton Or a bend sinister of the field.

Attached below the shield a Gold scroll inscribed “LABORE ET HONORE” in Black letters.

The distinctive unit insignia was originally approved for the 22nd Field Artillery Regiment on 19 May 1932.

On a wreath of the colors Or and Gules a Spanish galleon Or in full sail affronté Proper.

The crest is taken from the arms of the Panama Canal, indicating the place the 22nd Field Artillery was organized.

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