U.S. ARMY 102ND TRAINING DIVISION 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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Approved on 13 January 1970 for the 102nd Army Reserve Command, the 102nd Training Division Distinctive Unit Insignia—a device often called a unit crest—features two crossed bows superimposed over a column, an allusion to marksmanship skills. Inscribed at the bottom of the insignia is “OZARK,” a reference to the region where the Division was first formed in 1921; the word is derived from the French designation “terre aux arcs," or "bow country" that was used for the area by early explorers to describe the Native Americans' proficiency with the weapon. The unit’s numerical designation is seen in single column (1), silver annulet (0), and the crossed bows (2).

Originally constituted as the 102nd Division in November 1921, the unit was redesignated the 102nd Infantry Division before it was deployed to France in September 1944, entering combat lines in later October. The Division would be awarded two campaign streamers for participation in the Rhineland and Central Europe campaigns, with the latter made more memorable by the discover of a Nazi war crime in the town of Gardelegen.

In mid-April 1945, Nazi SS camp guards attempting to relocate camp prisoners at Dora-Mittelbau and affiliated sub-camps before advancing U.S. troops could reach them placed over 1,000 prisoners, many unable to continue walking, into a locked barn and set it ablaze. On 14 April 1945, the day after the atrocity, the 102nd entered Gardelegen and discovered blatant evidence of the crime, which is estimated to have claimed the lives of 1,016 came prisoners. The local commander of the 102nd ordered local townspeople to exhume the charred bodies and give them a proper burial, and the SS Untersturmführer in charge of the prisoner movement, Erhard Brauny, was tried by a military tribunal and sentenced to life in prison. He died in 1950.

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