The 23rd Field Artillery Battalion was a field artillery battalion of the regular Army, constituted as a US-manned unit in 1921, but redesignated as a Philippine Scouts unit in 1930.
Constituted 16 August 1921 in the Regular Army as the 1st Battalion, 23d Field Artillery.
By July 1941 the regiment still fielded only a single battalion of artillery with 10 officers and 391 enlisted men and was armed with the obsolete 2.95-inch mountain guns (pack).
[1] Reorganized and redesignated 23d Field Artillery Battalion (Philippine Scouts) and assigned to the 12th Infantry Division 6 April 1946 Disbanded 25 March 1952.
This article incorporates public domain material from the United States Army Institute of Heraldry