The 360th Adjutant General Battalion Distinctive Unit Insignia (DUI), or unit crest, had been previously designated for the 360th Personnel and Administration Battalion from June 1985 to September 1991, when it was redesignated for the 360th Replacement Battalion; it is not clear when it was redesignated for the 360th Adjutant General Battalion. Its primary components are a yellow annulet, a red cinquefoil, black ermine spot, dark blue field and scroll, and yellow (gold) text.
Five lobes on the cinquefoil are for five European Theater campaigns, with the European location reinforced by the inclusion of the ermine spot. The annulet suggests both mobility (as in wheel) and its mission to provide continuity by rotating in new Soldiers to replace losses. Dark blue and scarlet are the official branch colors of the Adjutant General’s Corps. “Support To Win” is the unit motto.
Distinctive Unit Insignia is worn by all Soldiers (except General Officers) in units that have been authorized to be issued the device. Enlisted personnel wear the insignia centered on a shoulder loop by placing it an equal distance from the outside shoulder seam to the outside edge of the shoulder-loop button. Officers (except Generals) wearing grade insignia on the shoulder loops center the DUI by placing it an equal distance between the inside edge of the grade insignia and the outside edge of the button.
More guidance on wear of the DUI is found in DA Pamphlet 670-1, Section 21-22, "Distinctive unit insignia" and 21–3(d) and (e), "Beret" and
"Garrison Cap," respectively.
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The 360th Adjutant General Battalion was originally constituted in the Army of the United States on 8 January 1944 and was activated one week later on 15 January 1944. Under that designation, the unit would take part in five campaigns in the European Theater during World War II before its inactivation in Germany on 28 June 1946.
When the unit was redesignated as the Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment, 360th Replacement Battalion on 10 April 1947, it was simultaneously allotted to the Organized Reserves (later designated as the Army Reserve) and subsequently activated two weeks later on 24 April. Following an almost thirty-five-year inactivation, the Battalion was against redesignated as HHD, 360th Personnel and Administration Battalion and activated at Florence, South Carolina on 16 October 1984. It was relocated to Myrtle Beach, South Carolina before again being, this time as the HHD, 360th Replacement Battalion in 1990.
As the 360th Replacement Battalion, the unit was was ordered into active military service on three occasions: December 1990 in support of Operation Desert Storm, August 1997 to support Operation Joint Forge and January 2004 for Operation Iraqi Freedom. At some point between 2004 and its inactivation in May 2008, the unit was redesignated as the 360th Adjutant General Battalion.