The 349th Field Artillery Regiment was organized in November 1917 at Camp Dix, New Jersey, and assigned to the 92nd Division.

All Reserve personnel were relieved on 1 August 1940, the regiment withdrawn from the Organized Reserve, and concurrently, allotted to the Regular Army and activated at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, as the Field Artillery School support regiment.

The 72nd Field Artillery Brigade was constituted in the National Guard on 18 September 1940 and allotted to Michigan.

It was attached on 30 December 1940 to the Second Army, inducted into federal service on 7 April 1941, assigned to the V Corps, and moved to Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri, where it arrived on 2 June 1941.

[4] From 1 June 1958 until 15 May 1992, the brigade served as part of VII Corps Artillery in Germany.

Description/Blazon: Centered on a red rectangular device arched at the top and bottom and edged with a 1/8 inch (.32 cm) yellow border, the overall dimensions 2 inches (5.08 cm) in width and 3 inches (7.62 cm) in height, a black disc within a yellow ring surmounted above and below by two yellow pheons with white shafts, the topmost pointed to upper right, the lower one pointed to lower left.

The cannonball or black disc centered on the yellow one connotes accuracy of fire.

The pheons (arrowheads) are symbolic of fire power and their configuration with the yellow disc forms an allusion to the unit's numerical designation, 72.

Background: The distinctive unit insignia was originally approved for the 72d Artillery Group on 16 August 1968.