The 733rd Military Police Battalion was constituted on 24 November 1967 in the Army Reserve as the 733rd Military Police Detachment. Activated on 22 January 1968 at Jackson, Mississippi, the Battalion was reorganized and redesignated on 25 September 1996 as HQ and HQ Detachment, 733rd Military Police Battalion.
2003 saw the Battalion HQ move to a new home location at Fort Gillem, Georgia on 15 January, just two months before it received orders sending it into active military service on 15 March. That service would last until 15 January 2004, and some six years later its service while deployed to Southwest Asia would be recognized with a Meritorious Unit Commendation.
As of Autumn, the Battalion HQ is still located at Gillem, Georgia, with the Battalion’s subordinate units stationed at Worcester, Massachusetts; Scranton, Pennsylvania; Jacksonville, Florida; Fort Dix, New Jersey; and Lakeland, Florida.
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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.
VIRTUS INTEGRITAS VERITAS, the unit motto displayed on a black scroll of the 733rd Military Police Battalion Distinctive Unit Insignia, is a Latin phrase that translates in English as “Courage, Integrity, Truth.” The insignia features a yellow bend (diagonal bar running from viewer’s top left to bottom right) surmounted with a mace, an old weapons that is a symbol of authority in heraldry, denoting the ability and strength to enforce the law.
Another diagonal bar is made up of three bendlets (narrow bends) representing the three characteristics emphasized in the motto. The black of the scroll containing the text symbolize strength, while the gold used for the script connotes excellence.
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.