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313TH TRANSPORTATION 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 gray sixteen-pointed star bearing at its center within two wavy blue bands a brick red wheel surmounted overall by a quartered red and white cross botonny and all above a brick red scroll inscribed "OVER THE SHORE" in gold letters.

Symbolism
Brick red and golden yellow (gold) are the colors used for Transportation. The water terminal mission of the organization is symbolized by the wheel and the wavy blue bands simulating water. The star stands for guidance and its points to that of a compass and to the worldwide aspects of transportation. The points further simulate the cliffs lining the coast of Tinian, an island in the western Pacific and allude to the organization's service in that area during World War II. The red and white cross botonny taken from the Maryland state flag refers to the present home area of the Battalion.

Background
The distinctive unit insignia was approved on 5 September 1972.




Coat of Arms


Description/Blazon

Shield

Gules (Brick Red), a mullet of sixteen Or, charged with a wheel of four spokes saltirewise of the first, environed by a double annulet wavy Azure; on a canton quartered Gules and Argent a cross botonny counterchanged.

Crest

That for the regimens and separate battalions of the U.S. Army Reserve: From a wreath Or and Gules (Brick Red), 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

OVER THE SHORE.

Symbolism

Shield

Brick red and golden yellow (gold) are the colors used for Transportation. The water terminal mission of the organization is symbolized by the wheel and the wavy blue bands simulating water. The star stands for guidance and its points to that of a compass and to the worldwide aspects of transportation. The points further simulate the cliffs lining the coast of Tinian, an island in the western Pacific and allude to the organization's service in that area during World War II. The red and white cross botonny taken from the Maryland state flag refers to the present home area of the Battalion.

Crest

The crest is that of the U.S. Army Reserve.

Background
The coat of arms was approved on 7 May 1997.





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