The Shoulder Sleeve Insignia (unit patch) for the Sustainment Center of Excellence at Fort Lee was approved with an effective date of 1 January 2009, the same year that the Center’s $50 million dollar headquarters building was completed.
Red, white, and blue are the national colors, for valor and courage, purity, and faithfulness and loyalty, respectively. In the center of the insignia is a torch of knowledge, a symbol of the training functions of the Center’s various institutions that transform Service members into proficient and effective leaders and Soldiers. The flame of the torch is gold, the color of excellence and high achievements, while the five stars encircling it stand for the five major elements of the Sustainment mission: Financial Services, Human Resources, Maintenance, Supply, and Transportation.
The Sustainment Center of Excellence is a subordinate command of the Combined Arms Support Command, which is headquartered at the Sustainment Center at Fort Gregg-Adams (formerly named Fort Lee) in Virginia. Branch Schools hosted by the Center include Ordnance, Transportation, Quartermaster, and the Logistics University.