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 (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.
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.
Full 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.
This Distinctive Unit Insignia was worn by personnel in the 332nd Quartermaster Battalion and the 332nd Support Battalion. According to The Institute of Heraldry, the insignia was first approved for the 332nd Support Battalion. The unit motto of “The Strong Arm Of Support” remained the same for both types of organizations. Both organizations were allotted to the United States Army Reserve.
Neither the 332nd Quartermaster Battalion nor the 332nd Support Battalion are active as of Summer 2023 and no readily available public information indicates when they were redesignated, reflagged, inactivated, or disbanded. A March 2004 news story in the online edition of the
Champaign News-Gazette details how elements of the 332nd Quartermaster Battalion, such as the 300th Quartermaster Company, spent more than a year in Iraq and Afghanistan assigned or attached to other units supporting Operations Iraqi Freedom and Enduring Freedom by providing ammunition, fuel, food, and other materiel and purifying water.
At that time, the Battalion was a subordinate unit of the 88th Regional Readiness Command, which today is designated as the 88th Readiness Division.
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