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58TH SUPPORT BATTALION
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Distinctive Unit Insignia


Description/Blazon
A gold color metal and enamel device 1 1/8 inches (2.86 cm) in height overall consisting of a shield blazoned: Gules, three arming buckles one and two fesswise Or, upon a chief Buff between two pikes of the second a pale paly of six Gold and Sable charged with a bend counterchanged. Attached below the shield a Gold scroll inscribed "SUPPORT THE SOLDIER" in Black letters.

Symbolism
Buff and scarlet are the colors used for Support. Arming buckles, used during the Middle Ages to secure arms and equipment to the combatant, and the pikes express the overall mission and capabilities of the unit. The pikes and pale are used to allude to Pikesville, Maryland, the home Armory and allotted state of the organization.

Background
The distinctive unit insignia was approved on 24 October 1979.




Coat of Arms


Description/Blazon

Shield

Gules, three arming buckles one and two fesswise Or, upon a chief Buff between two pikes of the second a pale paly of six Gold and Sable charged with a bend counterchanged.

Crest

That for regiments and separate battalions of the Maryland Army National Guard: On a wreath of the colors Or and Gules a cross bottony per cross quarterly Gules and Argent.

Motto

SUPPORT THE SOLDIER.

Symbolism

Shield

Buff and scarlet are the colors used for Support. Arming buckles, used during the Middle Ages to secure arms and equipment to the combatant, and the pikes express the overall mission and capabilities of the unit. The pikes and pale are used to allude to Pikesville, Maryland, the home Armory and allotted state of the organization.

Crest

The crest is that of the Maryland Army National Guard.

Background
The coat of arms was approved on 23 April 1979.





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