The sword and the serpent found on the 30th Medical Brigade Shoulder Sleeve Insignia, or unit patch, denotes the unit’s military readiness and mission of medical service by mimicking the Staff of Aesculapius. The star in the mouth of the serpent symbolizes its originating state of Texas where it began as the 30th Medical Regiment on 1 October 1933. The unit's motto is "In Cruce Mea Fides".
The unit was redesignated as the 30th Medical Group on September 8, 1943 and a few years later, it deployed to Omaha Beach in France to provide medical service for Operation Overlord. By 1965, the 30th Medical Group was attached to Headquarters, 7th Medical Brigade, and became part of the U.S. Army's first medical brigade.
In 1992, the 30th Medical Group was reorganized as the 30th Medical Brigade then became 30th Medical Command (Deployment Support) in 2008 only to be reorganized again as the 30th Medical Brigade on October 18, 2013, at a ceremony in Sembach, Germany. When it was still the 30th Medical Command in 2009, it became the first Theater Medical Command to deploy to Afghanistan.
Though it was redesignated from a command to a brigade, the only significant change is fewer personnel as its mission stayed the same: To provide medical command and control, service and support for all forces assigned and attached to the current mission. It is no longer under the command of the European Regional Medical Command but rather the US Army Europe.
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