Featuring a maroon-and-white color scheme reminiscent of its Shoulder Sleeve Insignia (SSI) / Combat Service ID Badge (CSIB), the 8th Medical Brigade’s Unit Crest also features a cross—longtime emblem of aid, comfort, and assistance—to convey the unit’s basic mission. The traditions and ideals of the medical profession are symbolized by the caduceus and the color green, while the entwined snakes on the caduceus conveniently form the number “8” for the numerical designation of the brigade. Encompassing the design is the unit's motto, "Strength Through Health," written along the circular border.
The 8th Medical Brigade Distinctive Unit Insignia was approved on 13 September 1976.
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Technically called a Distinctive Unit Insignia or DUI for short, the unit crest is worn only with the blue Army Service Uniform (ASU) that replaced the Army Green Uniform. The DUI is the ASU equivalent of the colored Shoulder Sleeve Insignia-Former Wartime Service (SSI-FWTS) patch worn on the left sleeve of the Army Green Uniform discontinued in 2015. However, the SSI-FWTS was brought back and redesignated as the Shoulder Sleeve Insignia-Military Operations in Hostile Conditions, or SSI-MOHC, with the introduction of the Army Green Service Uniform (AGSU) in November 2018.
Related Items
8th Medical Brigade Patch (SSI)
8th Medical Brigade Combat Service ID Badge (CSIB)