The 101st Aviation Regiment Distinctive Unit Insignia, often called a unit crest or a DUI, was originally approved for the 101st Aviation Battalion on 22 April 1965. It was redesignated for the 101st Aviation Regiment on 16 October 1987. An eagle swooping downward with talons extended represents the Aviation Mission and is an allusion to the 101st Airborne Division, to which the Regimen is assigned.
Distinctive Unit Insignias are 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.
Full guidance on wear of the DUI is found in DA Pamphlet 670-1,
Section 21-22, "Distinctive unit insignia."
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The 101st Aviation Regiment was originally constituted as the 4th Light Aviation Section in the Regular Army on 17 December 1950 in Korea and activated a dozen days later. By the time of its inactivation on 5 November 1954, the unit had taken part in eight of the Korean War’s ten campaigns and had been awarded the Republic of Korea Presidential Unit Citation. On 1 July 1956, the unit was redesignated the 101st Aviation Company, assigned to the 101st Airborne Division, and activated at Fort Campbell in Kentucky. It was reorganized, redesignated, activated as HHC, 101st Aviation Battalion on 3 December 1962.
During the Vietnam War, the Battalion fought in eleven of the conflict’s seventeen campaigns and was the recipient of two Valorous Unit Awards, a pair of Republic of Vietnam (ROV) Cross of Gallantry with Palm awards, and an ROV Civil Action Honor medal, First Class. In 1987, the unit was reorganized and redesignated under the U.S. Army Regimental System as the 101st Aviation and its units deployed to Kuwait to take part in Operations Desert Shield/Desert Storm, earning two campaign streamers, two Valorous Unit Awards, and a Meritorious Unit Commendation.
Since the launch of the War on Terrorism, the 101st Aviation Regiment’s Battalions and/or Companies within Battalions have received over 120 individual military decorations.