The focal points of the 24th Signal Battalion Distinctive Unit Insignia (DUI), or unit crest, are blue and orange lighting flashes that are an allusion to communications and communications technology. The oyster shell with pearl above the flashes denotes the unit’s home base of Pearl Harbor at the time the insignia was approved, and the light blue area is for service in Korea. "Voice Of Victory" is the Battalion motto.
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 (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.
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The 24th Signal Battalion was originally constituted and organized in the Regular Army as Company L, Signal Corps on 6 January 1905. It was redesignated as Company B, 3rd Field Battalion, Signal Corps (1 December 1917) and then as Company B, Field Signal Battalion (29 August 1917). It was consolidated with Company E, 53rd Telegraph Battalion to become the 11th Signal Company in July 1921, and the following year was assigned to the Hawaiian Division (later designated the 24th Infantry Division).
It was designated as the 24th Signal Company in 1941 and served in the Pacific Theater with the 24th Infantry Division, earning Arrowhead devices for three of the five campaigns in which it took part. Its service was also recognized with a Meritorious Unit Commendation and Philippine Presidential Unit Citation. Still designated as a Signal Company and assigned to the 24th Infantry Division, the unit deployed to Korea in 1950 and eventually participated in eight of the ten campaigns, earning a Presidential Unit Citation, Meritorious Unit Citation, and two Republic of Korea Presidential Unit Citations along the way.
It would not be deployed to a combat zone again until 1990 and the Southwest Asia conflict (First Gulf War), where it took part in the Defense of Saudi Arabia and the Liberation and Defense of Kuwait campaigns (C Company also took part in the Cease-Fire campaign). It was inactivated on 15 February 1996 at Fort Stewart, Georgia.