U.S. ARMY 84TH TRAINING COMMAND UNIT CREST (DUI)

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. Current regulations do not permit the DUI to be 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.

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 84th Training Command Distinctive Unit Insignia was first approved for wear on 23 December 1942, a little over two months after the unit had been ordered into active military service on 15 October 1942 and reorganized at Camp Howze in Texas, at which time it was redesignated as Headquarters, 84th Infantry Division. The Division saw combat in World War II, where it took part in three campaigns (Rhineland, Ardennes-Alsace, Central Europe). Though briefly designated an Airborne Division in the Army Reserve, the Division’s mission has been training ever since 1959. As of Winter 2024, the 84th Training Command remains an active training organization in the U.S. Army Reserve headquartered at Fort Knox, Kentucky. It has four subordinate units: the 78th, 86th, 87th, and 91st Training Divisions.

Based upon a somewhat dubious link between the 84th Division and the militia outfit Abraham Lincoln joined for a brief period in 1832, the Division—which drew Soldiers from Illinois, Indiana, and Kentucky, all of which have links to Lincoln—dubbed itself the “Railsplitters,” hence the axe on the 84th Training Command unit crest. Blue and white are used for the insignia, representing infantry, and the sides of the octagon (8) and square (4) represent the unit’s numerical designation. “Strike Hard,” the unit motto and apt description of battle tactics as well as wood-chopping technique, is inscribed on a scroll forming the base of the unit crest.

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