Approved on 28 August 1990, the color version of the 128th Aviation Brigade Shoulder Sleeve Insignia, also called a unit patch and featurig a design also employed on the Brigade’s Combat Service ID Badge, is crafted in ultramarine blue and golden orange, branch colors of Army Aviation. Blue is, of course, symbolic of the sky, but also connotes perseverance and loyalty (“true blue”). Gold is always the color of excellence in heraldry.
The strands of the golden orange area reaching into the ultramarine blue simulate tongues of flame, an allusion to firepower. Two countercharged pheons (arrows) represent the Brigade’s attack abilities and swift striking power.
Activated in Panama in January 1990, the Brigade earned a campaign credit for the Armed Forces Expedition Operation Just Cause which ousted Panamanian strongman Manuel Noriega. Inactivated in 1995, the Brigade was reactivated in 2012 at the time it was transferred to the United States Army Training and Doctrine Command. It is headquartered at Fort Novosel (formerly named Fort Rucker) in Alabama, home to the United States Army Aviation Center of Excellence.
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