A subordinate unit of the 3rd Medical Command (Deployment Support) in the United States Army Reserve, the 338th Medical Brigade is headquartered at Horsham, Pennsylvania. In addition to its Headquarters and Headquarters Company, it comprises the 410th Hospital Center (created through the September 2017 reflagging of the 48th Combat Support Hospital) and the 424th Multifunctional Medical Battalion. Its most recent decoration for exceptional service came in March 2017, when a Detachment from its HHC Detachment was issued the Army Superior Unit Award for its service between January and December 2006.
Maroon and white, branch colors of the Army Medical Corps, are featured predominantly in the design of the color version of the 338th Medical Brigade Shoulder Sleeve Insignia, often called a unit patch. The insignia consists of a maroon disc with a white border containing the Rod of Aesculapius superimposed on the vertical section of a cross with fleur-de-lis on each branch atop a gold ring. Gold is a symbol of excellence and high, pure ideals; the ring shape is an allusion to wheels/movement and thus recalls the unit’s experience as Hospital Train during World War II. The ring also symbolizes unit and cooperation.
A fleur-de-lis on the end of cross branches is a reference to the unit’s service in World War II in the European-African-Middle Eastern Theater. The Rod of Aesculapius is a centuries-old symbol of medicine; here the rod is green because it is the color associated with color and healing, the start of the journey to a "Sound Body Sharp Mind." The white cross is a universal sign of aid and compassion.
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