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. DUIs are not worn on the Dress variations of either uniform, however.
The Distinctive Unit Insignia of the 25th Transportation Battalion was approved on 17 April 1996 while it was designated the 25th Transportation Movement Control Agency; it was redesignated for the 25th Transportation Battalion in March 1998. A tower with a fleur-de-lis represents the unit’s participation in the Rhineland and Central Europe campaigns (tower) and in Normandy and Northern France (fleur-de-lis). A red annulet recalls the unit’s Meritorious Unit Commendation and, when combined with the railroad track, symbolizes the Transportation mission.
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The 25th Transportation Battalion was constituted on 31 January 1944, as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 25th Regulating Station and was activated at Camp Plauche, Louisiana on 5 February 1994. It would take part in five campaigns in the European Theater and earn a Meritorious Unit Commendation before war’s end. In December 1946, the unit was redesignated for the first of four times in less than two years, eventually being given the designation of 25th Transportation Battalion on 16 February 1953. Allotted to the Regular Army in 1951, the Battalion would be deployed to Austria, where it was inactivated in February 1955, and then to Germany, where it was inactivated in 1957. In June 1960, it was activated in Korea and has remained there since.
Of course, it underwent more redesignations since that time—25th Transportation Center in 1966, 25th Transportation Agency in 1989, and finally 25th Transportation Battalion again in 1999—and the commands, agencies, and departments to which it reports have also changed. Today, its self-described mission is to provide “mission command of Movement Control Teams (MCTs) in order to manage transportation assets and provide in-transit visibility for the movement of US Forces and materiel in the Republic of Korea (ROK).” And its success in the past is summed up in the unit motto, “Consider It Done.”