The 73rd Infantry Brigade Shoulder Sleeve Insignia, or unit patch, was approved for wear on the same day—1 March 1977—that the unit was relieved from assignment to the 38th Infantry Division; it had been designated as the 73rd Infantry Brigade nearly a dozen years earlier in 1968. Although the Brigade underwent several redesignations over the next thirty years, including having its numerical designation changed to 37th, the insignia was always passed along to the new unit.
But that came to an end in 2007, when it became the 37th Infantry Brigade Combat Team in the Ohio Army National Guard and was assigned to carry on the lineage of the 37th Infantry Division. The unit was subsequently repatched and now wears an insignia highly similar to the one once worn by the 37th Infantry Division, with a red disc taken from the Ohio state flag in the center of a white circular field.
The 73rd Infantry Brigade unit patch (and 37th Infantry Brigade unit patch from 1992 to 2007) features a gold, upright sword on a bend dexter in a blue field. Along with the colors blue and yellow, the sword represents the unit’s Infantry mission; it’s two-sided design stands for martial power and the ability to strike boldly as the cutting edge of an advance.
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