The U.S. Army Transportation Center and School Shoulder Sleeve Insignia, or unit patch, was originally approved on 7 November 1956 for the Transportation Training Command and was subsequently redesignated for the U.S. Army Transportation Center and U.S. Army Transportation School on 23 October4 1962.
Brick red and yellow are used for the color version of the patch to denote the Center and School’s affiliation with the Transportation Corps. In the center of the patch is a winged wheel surmounted on a flaming torch; the wheel has been taken from the branch insignia of the Transportation Corps, while the torch is a traditional heraldic symbol for knowledge and enlightenment and symbolizes the training conducted at the School.
Because transportation operations had been the responsibility of the Army Quartermaster Corps since the days of the Revolutionary War, a distinct Transportation branch was not created until it was born out of necessity in July 1942. Four years later, the Transportation School consolidated all training of Transportation personnel (except for drivers) at Fort Eustis, Virginia in order to exploit the installation’s intermodal rail and sea capabilities.
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Transportation Center & School Unit Crest (DUI)Nearly seven decades elapsed before the Transportation School was relocated. In 2010, part of the School was transferred to Fort Lee (renamed Fort Gregg-Adams in 2023) in Virginia, home of the schools for two branches—Ordnance and Quartermaster—closely related to the Transportation mission. Today, the School still has units being trained at Fort Eustis as well as at Fort Gregg-Adams.