397th Regiment Brigade Combat Team Unit Crest (Death Before Dishonor)

397th Regiment Brigade Combat Team Unit Crest (Death Before Dishonor)

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The 397th Regiment Distinctive Unit Insignia, or unit crest, was originally approved for the 397th Infantry Regiment on 3 June 1932. It subsequently underwent several redsignations, first for the 397th Parachute Infantry Regiment (December 1948), then the 397th Infantry Regiment, again (August 1952). A type or grammatical error meant the 1952 designation had to be amended, which it was on 17 March 1954. It was redesignated only once more, on 23 August 1960, for the 397th Regiment, but this change had to be amended twice – first to add a motto and revise the symbolism on 30 December 1969 and then on 3 April 1970 to correct the symbolism.

A blue shield reflects the unit’s origins as an Infantry organization (blue has been the Infantry color since 1903), while the black used for the stylized mountain alludes to the coal region of West Virginia between the Monongahela and Ohio Rivers (symbolized by the wavy bars above and below the mountaintops) where the Regiment originally organized. Besides serving as mountain tops, the three points of the dancette also stand for the three campaigns in which units in the organization’s lineage served in during Word War II.

“Death Before Dishonor” is the Battalion motto.

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