The 90th Sustainment Brigade unit patch, officially called a Shoulder Sleeve Insignia, was first approved for wear by the 90th Division on 25 October 1918, but it has been redesignated for two of the units in the 90th Division’s lineage—the 90th Infantry Division and the 90th Army Reserve Command—and was reassigned (as opposed to redesignated) for the 90th Regional Support Command on 16 April 1996. It was then redesignated for the 90th Regional Readiness Command effective 16 July 2003, and finally redesignated for the 90th Sustainment Brigade on 17 September 2008. The units approved to wear the insignia after it was reassigned do not officially carry the lineage of the 90th Division.
Like so many World War I divisions, the 90th was constituted on 5 August 1917 and then organized on 25 August 1917 at Camp Travis, which until it was selected as the organization and training site for the Division was known as Camp Wilson. Located five miles from downtown San Antonio, the location of Camp Travis led to the nickname “Alamo Division” for the 90th, the first of several.
The design of the 90th Division (and subsequent iterations thereof) unit patch, with a monogrammed “TO” in a square, was based on the fact that the unit was originally made up primarily of junior officers from Oklahoma and Texas, and that enlisted Soldiers also came almost exclusively from those two states. But the units service in both World Wars—it earned seven campaign streamers, a French Croix de Guerre with Palm for World War II, and suffered especially harrowing casualties in the breakout from the Normandy beachhead and—led to a new meaning of TO: “Tough ‘Ombres.” It’s also been said to mean “Texas’ Own.”
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