A subordinate organization of Army University, the U.S. Army Command and General Staff School was created in 1881 as the School of Application for Infantry and Cavalry at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. Today, it is an institution that provides education and training not only for Army personnel, but also for Joint forces and interagency, intergovernmental, and multinational students.
It comprises four schools—Command and General Staff School, School of Advanced Military Studies, School for Command Preparation, and School of Advanced Leadership and Tactics—and is accredited by the Joint Chiefs of Staff to deliver Joint Professional Military Education, as well as by the Higher Learning Commission to issue Master of Military Art and Science degree graduates of three of the School’s fourteen academic courses.
The Distinctive Unit Insignia (DUI) for the U.S. Army Command and General Staff School was first approved on 16 June 1938 and was redesignated a decade later for the Command and General Staff College. On 30 October 1974, authorization for wear of the insignia was extended to personnel assigned to the U.S. Army Combined Arms Center and Fort Leavenworth.
AD BELLUM PACE PARATI, the organization’s motto, is Latin for “Prepared In Peace For War.” The inscription LEAVEN WORTH located above the eagle that serves as the insignia’s crest is not part of the unit motto, but merely a nod to the unit’s location since its inception in 1881.
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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