The 3rd Cavalry Regiment Shoulder Sleeve Insignia, or unit patch, was approved by George Patton, who served as Colonel of the Regiment from 1938 to 1940, but was not worn by its members until 1944 and did not receive official approval from The Institute of Heraldry until 12 June 1967.
The colors yellow and green are used in a nod to the unit’s 1846 organization as the Regiment of Mounted Riflemen, whose uniforms had facings of green and a gold trumpet as its insignia. The unit’s nickname, “Brave Rifles,” was used by General Winfield Scott to honor the Regiment following the Battle of Chapultepec in the Mexican War. The letters, number, and bugle tassel are gray to connote the color of steel as a reference to another remark made by Scott (“You have been baptized in fire and blood and have come out steel”).
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