THE UNIVERSITY OF THE ANTONIAN GEORGIA 1775
Headquarters
Department of the Army
Washington, DC
14 February 2024

*Army Regulation 220–5

Effective 22 September 2019

Field Organizations

Designation, Classification, and Change in Status of Units

By Order of the Secretary of the Army:

RANDY A. GEORGE

General, United States Army

Chief of Staff

MARK F. AVERILL

Administrative Assistant to the

Secretary of the Army

History. This publication is an administrative revision. The portions affected by this administrative revision are listed in the summary of change.

Authorities. This section contains no entries.

Applicability. This regulation applies to the Regular Army, the Army National Guard/Army National Guard of the United States, and the U.S. Army Reserve, unless otherwise stated.

Proponent and exception authority. The proponent of this publication is the Deputy Chief of Staff, G–3/5/7. The proponent has the authority to approve exceptions or waivers to this publication that are consistent with controlling law and regulations. The proponent may delegate this approval authority, in writing, to a division chief within the proponent agency or its direct reporting unit or field operating agency in the grade of colonel or the civilian equivalent. Activities may request a waiver to this publication by providing justification that includes a full analysis of the expected benefits and must include formal review by the activity's senior legal officer. All waiver requests will be endorsed by the commander or senior leader of the requesting activity and forwarded through their higher headquarters to the policy proponent. Refer to AR 25–30 for specific requirements.

Army internal control process. This regulation contains internal control provisions in accordance with AR 11–2 and identifies key internal controls that must be evaluated (see appendix B).

Suggested improvements. Users are invited to send comments and suggested improvements on DA FormDA FormDepartment of the Army form 2028 (Recommended Changes to Publications and Blank Forms) directly to usarmy.mcnair.cmh.mbx.answers@army.mil.

Distribution. This regulation is available in electronic media only and is intended for the Regular Army, the Army National Guard/Army National Guard of the United States, and the U.S. Army Reserve.

*This regulation supersedes AR 220-5, dated 22 August 2019.

AR 220–5 • 14 February 2024

UNCLASSIFIED

Activate To transfer a constituted Regular Army or USARUSARUnited States Army Reserve MTOEMTOEModification table of organization and equipment unit from the inactive to the active rolls of the Army. Normally the unit is stationed at a specific location and assigned personnel and equipment; how- ever, a unit may be active at zero strength. Also see organize.

Allot To assign a unit to one of the components of the Army.

Army National Guard In this regulation, ARNGARNGArmy National Guard refers to both the ARNGARNGArmy National Guard and the ARNGARNGArmy National Guard of the United States. See Title 32 and Title 10, United States Code.

Army Reserve A Federal force consisting of individual reinforcements and units organized and maintained to provide mil- itary training in peacetime and a reservoir of trained units and individual reservists to be ordered to active duty in the event of a national emergency. Army Reserve is commonly referred to as USARUSARUnited States Army Reserve.

Assign To make a unit part of a larger organization and place it under that organization's command and control until it is relieved from assignment.

Attach To place a unit under the command and control of another organization on a temporary basis.

Combat Arms Regimental System The concept under which combat arms (infantry, artillery, armor, and cavalry (except armored cavalry reg- iments)) were organized between 1957 and their reorganization under the USARS (see USARS).

Consolidate To merge or combine two or more units into one new unit. The new unit may retain the designation of one of the original units, or it may have a new designation, but it inherits the history and honors of all units af- fected by the merger.

Constitute To place the designation of a new MTOEMTOEModification table of organization and equipment unit on the official rolls of the Army.

Designate To give a unit an official number and/or name.

Disband To remove the designation of a Regular Army or USARUSARUnited States Army Reserve unit from the official rolls of the Army. Disband- ment is intended to be permanent and irreversible except in extraordinary circumstances. The word is also applicable to ARNGARNGArmy National Guard units prior to World War I. Since then, the phrase “withdraw Federal recognition” is used for ARNGARNGArmy National Guard units rather than “disband.”

Discontinue To terminate the existence of a TDATDATables of distribution and allowances or provisional unit.

Inactivate To place a Regular Army or USARUSARUnited States Army Reserve MTOEMTOEModification table of organization and equipment unit that is not currently needed in the active force structure in an inoperative status without assigned personnel or equipment for a limited period of time.

Long name A data field in the DRRS–A database which represents the official designation of a unit.

Modification table of organization and equipment A document that prescribes the modification of a basic TOETOETable(s) of Organization and Equipment necessary to adapt it to the needs of a spe- cific unit or type of unit. Also see TOETOETable(s) of Organization and Equipment.

Organize To assign personnel and equipment to a unit and make it operative, that is, capable of performing its mis- sion. This term was used instead of activate prior to 1921 and is still used for ARNGARNGArmy National Guard units. Also see Acti- vate.

Parent regiment An administrative entity organized under the CARS or the USARS to perpetuate the history of the ele- ments of the organization.

Parenthetical identification A word or phrase, usually referring to a function, added in parentheses after an organization's official des- ignation, for example, 1st Battalion, 504th Infantry Regiment (Airborne).

Permanent change of station The transfer of a unit from one location to another under orders that do not provide for termination of as- signment.

Provisional unit A unit organized, either under an MTOEMTOEModification table of organization and equipment or TDATDATables of distribution and allowances, from military personnel on temporary duty from their as- signed positions in other MTOEMTOEModification table of organization and equipment or TDATDATables of distribution and allowances units. Recognition of the provisional unit does not extend beyond the jurisdiction of the command by which it is organized.

Reconstitute To restore to the official rolls of the Army a disbanded MTOEMTOEModification table of organization and equipment unit or one whose Federal recognition has been withdrawn. The reconstituted unit may have a new designation, but it retains its former history, line- age, and honors.

Redesignate To change a unit's official number and/or name.

Reflag To replace one unit’s designation, lineage and honors, flag and heraldic items, with those of a different unit, either through activation/inactivation or transfer, while retaining the original unit’s UICUICUnit identification code, personnel, and equipment.

Regular Army Permanent army maintained in peace as well as in war; standing army.

Reorganize To change the structure of a unit in accordance with a new MTOEMTOEModification table of organization and equipment or TDATDATables of distribution and allowances.

Reserve Components of the U.S. Army See ARNGARNGArmy National Guard and USARUSARUnited States Army Reserve.

Table of distribution and allowances A document that prescribes the organizational structure and the personnel and equipment authorizations and requirements of a military unit to perform a specific mission for which there is no appropriate TOETOETable(s) of Organization and Equipment.

Table of organization and equipment A document that prescribes the official designation, normal mission, organizational structure, and person- nel and equipment requirements for a military unit and is the basis for an authorization document. Also see MTOEMTOEModification table of organization and equipment.

Transfer less personnel and equipment To move the designation of a unit from one location to another without moving its personnel and equip- ment.

Transfer to Headquarters, Department of the Army control vated. rent force structure requirements but for which there will be a need in the foreseeable future. The action has the effect of retaining in active but unfilled and inoperative status a unit for which a requirement is foreseen.

U.S. Army Regimental System See AR 870–21. In this regulation, the term applies only to the following combat regiments: Air Defense Artillery, Armor, Aviation, Cavalry, Field Artillery, Infantry, Rangers, and Special Forces.

Unit Any military organization whose structure is prescribed by a competent military authority and that has its own UICUICUnit identification code.

Unit identification code A six-character symbol, beginning with W and ending with AA, identifying each unit in the Army.