U.S. ARMY AVIATION CENTER AND SCHOOL PATCH (SSI)

Orange and black are the colors of the Army Aviation School, now called the U.S. Army Aviation Center of Excellence, and are featured prominently in the School/Center Shoulder Sleeve Insignia. A pair of wings attached to a flaming torch symbolize the schools’ training mission, with wings representing flight and the torch the light of knowledge and learning.

During World War II, most training of Army pilots and maintenance personnel was conducted at Post Field in Oklahoma and overseen by the Department of Air Training (although Army Air Force also carried out some training). In the early 1950s, the facilities at Post Field were expanded to become the Army Aviation School, but space issues due to the co-location of the Army’s Artillery School there led the Army to move the school to Camp Rucker, Alabama in 1954.

In February of the following year, the School became the Army Aviation Center and Camp Rucker was given permanent status as Fort Rucker. By 1956, the Army had assumed the responsibility of training all its Aviation personnel at Fort Rucker, and on 14 March 1957 the “winged torch” Shoulder Sleeve Insignia was approved for the Army Aviation School; authorization for wear was extended to the staff and faculty members of the schools and assigned student aviators on 25 April 1958. On 20 July 1964, the insignia was redesignated for the U.S. Army Aviation Center and the U.S. Army Aviation School.

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Today, Fort Rucker is named Fort Novosel and is home to the U.S. Army Aviation Center of Excellence and the United States Army Aviation Museum. Training is handled by three Aviation Brigades, the 1st, 110th, and 128th, comprising ten Battalions. Two of the 128th Brigade’s Battalion conduct training in Aircraft maintenance, and a third serves as a Student Battalion. The Center is also home to a Noncommissioned Officers Academy.

The organization’s motto, “Above The Best,” is inscribed on the Aviation Center of Excellence Distinctive Unit Insignia, also referred to as a unit crest or DUI (see below).
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