U.S. ARMY 45TH AIR DEFENSE ARTILLERY BRIGADE UNIT CREST (DUI)

Also known as a unit crest or DUI, a 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.

The 45th Air Defense Artillery Brigade Distinctive Unit Insignia was approved on 23 September 1966 at the height of the Cold War that defined the trajectory of the unit’s destiny. In its center is a Florentine fleur-de-lis, symbolic of the organization's battle honors for service in Italy during World War II. The red cone has the appearance of a field of fire, with a sunburst inside it representing the power of artillery fire which denotes the air-defense mission of the unit. A pair of birdbolts (short blunt arrows for killing birds without piercing them) are an allusion to the accuracy and striking power of the Brigade's missiles and air-defense artillery weaponry. The unit motto, "Deter Or Destroy," simply listed the only two acceptable options for dealing with the possibility of an incoming enemy missile.

Full 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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Constituted as the 45th Coast Artillery Brigade (Anti-Aircraft) on 26 April 1942 and activated 1 June 1942, the 45th Air Defense Artillery Brigade is credited with participation in three campaigns in Italy during World War II (Naples-Foggia, Rome-Arno, North Apennines) and was inactivated on 13 February 1945. The unit’s exact lineage is almost impossible to discern after this point, but at some time in the 1950s it became the 45th Artillery Brigade (Air Defense) and was assigned to the Air Defense of the Chicago-Milwaukee area. Its original headquarters was at the Museum of Science and Industry from 1952 to 1957, at which point it moved to the Arlington Heights NIKE Site.

The Brigade was probably redesignated as the 45th Air Defense Artillery Brigade in 1972, and likely inactivated at the latest with the termination of Army Air Defense Command (ARADCOM) in 1975.
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