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244TH ENGINEER BATTALION
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Distinctive Unit Insignia

Distinctive Unit Insignia

Description
A Silver color metal and enamel device 31/32 inch (2.46 cm) in height overall consisting of a shield blazoned:  Per pale Argent and Gules a fess humetty surmounted by three pulleys palewise one hook up and two hooks done all counterchanged.  Attached below and to the sides of the shield a Silver scroll inscribed CONSTRUCTION CONQUERS in Black letters.

Symbolism
Scarlet and white (silver) are the colors used for Engineer Battalions.  The division of the shield into the two parts allude to the dual function of the Engineers as an arm and a technical service.  The three pulleys represent the mission of the unit to construct, maintain and demolish.  They also commemorate the three battle honors awarded the unit for services in World War II.  The rectangle, symbolic of a bulldozer blade, refers to the units mission; it also represents the state of Colorado, whose boundaries form a perfect rectangle and which is the area where the unit was activated.

Background
The distinctive unit insignia was approved on 22 April 1960.




Coat of Arms

Coat of Arms

Blazon

Shield

Per pale Argent and Gules a fess humetty surmounted by three pulleys palewise one hook up and two hooks done all counterchanged.

Crest

That for the regiments and separate battalions of the Army Reserve:  On a wreath of the colors Argent and Gules, the Lexington Minute Man Proper.  The statue of the Minute Man, Captain John Parker (H.H. Kitson, sculptor), stands on the common in Lexington, Massachusetts.

Motto

CONSTRUCTION CONQUERS.

Symbolism

Shield

Scarlet and white (silver) are the colors used for Engineer Battalions.  The division of the shield into the two parts allude to the dual function of the Engineers as an arm and a technical service.  The three pulleys represent the mission of the unit to construct, maintain and demolish.  They also commemorate the three battle honors awarded the unit for services in World War II.  The rectangle, symbolic of a bulldozer blade, refers to the units mission; it also represents the state of Colorado, whose boundaries form a perfect rectangle and which is the area where the unit was activated.

Crest

The crest is that of the United States Army Reserve.

Background
The coat of arms was approved on 22 April 1960.





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