Assigned to the 3rd Brigade Combat team of the 1st Infantry Division and headquartered in Bamberg, Germany, 1–6 FA was only a short distance away from the wars in the former Yugoslavia.

In 1997, 1st Battalion, 6th Field Artillery deployed to Bosnia and Herzegovina in support of Operation Joint Guard from 10 March 1997 until 10 October 1997.

The excellence displayed by 1–6 FA resulted in the reception of the Army Superior Unit award upon return to Bamberg, Germany.

1-6 FA is now stationed in Grafenwoehr, Germany under the 41st Field Artillery Brigade since 11 July 2019 as an FAB MLRS unit.

Redesignated on 24 July 1946 as Battery A, 6th armored Field artillery Battalion, and relieved from assignment to the 37th infantry division.

2d Battalion, 6th Field artillery, inactivated 16 June 1988 in Germany and relieved from assignment to the 3d Armored Division.

It was organized 5 October 1901 at Fort Douglas, Utah Reorganized and redesignated 11 June 1907 as Battery B, 6th Field Artillery.

Activated 1 July 1940 at Fort Hoyle, Maryland Reorganized and redesignated 4 January 1941 as Battery B, 6th Field Artillery Battalion (which was assigned on 8 August 1942 to the 37th Infantry Division).

Inactivated 13 December 1945 at Camp Anza, California Redesignated 24 July 1946 as Battery B, 6th Armored Field Artillery Battalion, and relieved from assignment to the 37th Infantry Division Activated 1 August 1946 at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, where it supported the Field Artillery School.

Battery B, 6th Field Artillery, inactivated 15 September 1995 at Fort Riley, Kansas, and relieved from assignment to the 1st Infantry Division Redesignated 16 December 1995 as Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 3d Battalion, 6th Field Artillery, assigned to the 10th Mountain Division, and activated at Fort Drum, New York (organic elements concurrently activated) Relieved 16 September 2004 from assignment to the 10th Mountain Division and assigned to the 1st Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division In 2001 3/6 deployed to the Balkans Redesignated 1 October 2005 as the 3d Battalion, 6th Field Artillery Regiment.

A, B and C Battery, 3rd Battalion, 6th Field Artillery have also deployed to Afghanistan and Iraq multiple times Civil War: Peninsula; Manassas; Antietam; Fredericksburg; Chancellorsville; Gettysburg; Wilderness; Spotsylvania; Cold Harbor; Petersburg; Maryland 1863; Virginia 1863 War with Spain: Santiago Mexican Expedition: *Mexico 1916–1917 World War I: *Montdidier-Noyon; *Aisne-Marne; *St. Mihiel; *Meuse-Argonne; *Lorraine 1917; *Lorraine 1918; *Picardy 1918 World War II: *Northern Solomons; *Luzon (with arrowhead) Vietnam: *Counteroffensive; *Counteroffensive, Phase II; *Counteroffensive, Phase III; *Tet Counteroffensive; *Counteroffensive, Phase IV; *Counteroffensive, Phase V; *Counteroffensive, Phase VI; *Tet 69/Counteroffensive; *Summer-Fall 1969; *Winter-Spring 1970 Southwest Asia: *Defense of Saudi Arabia; *Liberation and Defense of Kuwait; *Cease-Fire War on Terrorism: Campaigns to be determined Battery A additionally entitled to: Valorous Unit Award, Streamer embroidered DAK TO-BEN HET A Gold color metal and enamel device 1+1⁄16 inches (2.7 cm) in height overall consisting of a shield blazoned: Per fess Gules and a base per pale of the first and Azure, on a fess wavy Or two sabers in saltire of the first behind a mullet of the second, in base two fleurs-de-lis of the third, in chief a rattlesnake coiled Vert.

Attached below and to the sides of the shield a Gold scroll inscribed "CELER ET AUDAX" in Red letters.

The motto is appropriate both to the horse and snake and is used as belonging to the older arms of service and translates to "Swift and Bold."