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 (ASU, 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.
More 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.
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The 38th Infantry Division was first constituted in July 1917 as Headquarters, 38th Division in the National Guard and organized with Soldiers from Indiana, Kentucky, and West Virginia at Camp Shelby, Mississippi. During training prior to deployment to Europe to fight in World War II, a tornado struck the camp in the spring of 1918, thus spawning the Division’s nickname of “Cyclone.” Although the unit did arrive in Europe before the German surrender, its various subordinate units were parceled out to provide reinforcements for other units, which is why the 38th’s World War I Campaign Streamer has no inscription of a specific campaign.
During World War II, the unit was reorganized and redesignated under its current name and in its first action came in the fighting on New Guinea, for which it earned Campaign credit. It next deployed to Leyte in December 1944 for clean-up operations, and subsequently took part in an amphibious landing on the west coast of Luzon, represented on 38th Infantry Division Distinctive Unit Insignia—a device also called a unit crest or DUI—by an arrow on one of the three lightning bolts. But it was their work further south clearing Japanese defenders from the island’s peninsula that earned the division a nickname even more powerful than “Cyclone:” “Avengers of Bataan.”Today, the division is headquartered in Indianapolis and contains Soldiers from several states including Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana, Delaware, Michigan, and Tennessee West Virginia.
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