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Crest


Description/Blazon
That for regiments and separate battalions of the Ohio Army National Guard:  From a wreath of colors, a sheaf of seventeen arrows Argent bound by a sprig of buckeye (aesculus glabra) fructed Proper (two leaves with bursting burr).

Symbolism
Ohio, known as the Buckeye State, was the seventeenth state admitted to the Union and the sheaf of seventeen arrows appears on the great seal of the State.

Background
The crest for color bearing organizations of the State of Ohio was approved on 10 April 1923.  It was amended to correct the wording of the description on 3 January 1924. 





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