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346TH 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 gold sentry tower, as found in Morro Castle, San Juan, extending at top over a brick red annulet and surmounted within the annulet by a green grape leaf, the tower between and conjoined with two gold lightning flashes and the lower part of the annulet inscribed "ACTION ON WHEELS" in gold letters.

Symbolism
Brick red and golden yellow (gold) are the colors used for Transportation Corps. The two flashes represent the World War II campaign honors for the Central Europe and Rhineland in which the unit participated, the grape leaf referring to those areas. The flashes also allude to speed and efficiency of operation. The annulet simulates a wheel and relates to the unit's mobility, while the tower, used to symbolize San Juan, represents the organization's home site.

Background
The distinctive unit insignia was approved on 9 September 1969.




Coat of Arms


Description/Blazon

Shield

Quarterly Gules (Brick Red) and Or, in first the Morro Castle tower issuant from sinister base of the second windowed Argent; an escutcheon blazoned: Argent, a grape leaf pendent from a sprig Vert charged with two lightning bolts bendwise sinister Or; entoured by an annulet blemished at the first quarter counterchanged.

Crest

That for the regiments and separate battalions of the 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

ACTION ON WHEELS.

Symbolism

Shield

Brick red and golden yellow are the colors used for the Transportation Corps. The two lightning bolts represent the unit's two campaign honors for service in World War II. The grape leaf recalls the areas of the two campaigns: Central Europe and the Rhineland. The lightning bolts also allude to speed and efficiency of operation. The annulet simulates a wheel and relates to the unit's mobility, while the tower, used to symbolize San Juan, represents the organization's home site.

Crest

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

Background
The coat of arms was approved on 6 January 1997.





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