SCITE CITISSIME CERTE, the inscription found on the 13th Evacuation Hospital Distinctive Unit Insignia (DUI), is Latin for “Skillfully, Swiftly, Surely,” a reference to the work the unit did in the field during Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm. Mobilized on 15 November 1990, the unit set up and administered a 400-bed hospital, with tents and hallways manufactured out of rubberized canvas. The unit was demobilized on 10 May 1991 and redesignated as the 13th Combat Support Hospital and has since been inactivated.
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Also known as a unit crest or DUI, a Distinctive Unit Insignia is worn by all Soldiers (except General Officers) in units that have been
authorized to be issued the device. It is worn centered on the shoulder loops of the Army Green Service Uniform (AGSU) and the blue Army Service Uniform (Enlisted only) with the base of the insignia toward the outside shoulder seam. DUIs are not worn on the Dress variations of either uniform, however.
Enlisted personnel wear the insignia centered on a shoulder loop by placing it an equal distance from the outside shoulder seam to the outside edge of the shoulder-loop button. Officers (except Generals) wearing grade insignia on the shoulder loops center the DUI by placing it an equal distance between the inside edge of the grade insignia and the outside edge of the button.
Full guidance on wear of the DUI is found in DA Pamphlet 670-1,
Section 21-22, "Distinctive unit insignia" and 21–3(d) and (e),
"Beret" and
"Garrison Cap," respectively.