A Silver color metal and enamel device 1 1/8 inches (2.86 cm) in height overall consisting of a rounded shield blazoned: Per bend Argent and Azure (Teal Blue) a stylized flight symbol surmounted by a telescope bendwise counterchanged between in sinister chief a seven-pointed mullet Tenn and in dexter base a lightning flash bendsinisterwise of the like fimbriated of the first. Attached below and to the sides of the shield a Silver scroll inscribed "LUCKY SEVEN" in Black letters.
Teal blue is sued for battalions not assigned to a branch (as Aviation was at the time the insignia was designed). The shield is divided into two parts to represent day and night activity. The flight symbol alludes to Aviation; the telescope symbolizes reconnaissance, surveillance and observation. The mullet refers to providing illumination and the lightning flash in the color for signal, represents radio relay.
The distinctive unit insignia was approved on1 August 1963.