The 58th Infantry Regiment Distinctive Unit Insignia was approved on 26 November 1958. “Love Of Country,” the unit motto, reinforces the Regiment’s special designation of “Patriots.” A blue field is used for the unit’s Infantry affiliation, with the cross in the small shield at the bottom taken from the coat of arms of the 4th Infantry, the organization from which this unit was organized. A blue-and-white, vertically oriented torpedo is a memorial to the Regiment’s first wartime losses when the troop ship
Moldavia, carrying some units of the Regiment, was torpedoed on 23 May 1918. The broken white chevron denotes the piercing of the German lines between Soissons and Rheims, represented by the silver and gold fleurs-de-lis taken from the coats of arms of the two towns.
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.
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Organized as the 58th Infantry on 15 May 1917 in the Regular Army and organized 5 June 1917 at Gettysburg National Park in Pennsylvania, the 58th Infantry Regiment was assigned to the 4th Division and fought in five campaigns during World War I. It was inactivated in June 1922 and demobilized the following month, but was reconstituted on 8 April 1942 in the Regular Army as 58th Infantry and activated on 24 April. During World War II, the Regiment took part in four campaigns, one in the Aleutian Islands and three in Europe, with its two battalions being reassigned in January 1944 to the 203rd Infantry Battalion.
Both of them went through a variety of assignments and redesignation, rejoining the Battalion at different times; the 2nd Battalion was reassigned to the 58th Infantry in 1975, and the 1st Battalion in September 1962. 2nd Battalion’s HQ were transferred to U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command in 1987, and then in 2005 it was redesignated as 2nd Battalion, 58th Infantry Regiment. 1st Battalion was redesignated 1st Battalion, 58th Infantry in October 2005, then in 2017 it was transferred to the U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command and activated at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri.