DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA ARMY NATIONAL GUARD ELEMENT, JOINT FORCE HQ PATCH (SSI)

This District of Columbia Army National Guard (ARNG) unit patch, or Shoulder Sleeve Insignia, is worn by personnel serving in the Joint Force Headquarters (HQ) of the District’s National Guard. It was originally approved for the District of Columbia National Guard on 7 June 1948. It was redesignated for the HQ, District Area Command, District of Columbia ARNG on 30 December 1983, and on 1 October 2003 it was redesignated to its current title.

The dome of the United States Capitol building featured in the insignia is one of the most immediately recognizable structures in the world, and the image of the sun rising behind it is taken from the Great Seal of the District of Columbia. A twisted wreath of red and white, the colors of Great Britain, alludes to the fact that the land that makes up the District of Columbia was carved out of land from Viriginia and Maryland, two of the original thirteen English colonies.

While Federal law specifically assigns a dual mission, Federal and State, to the National Guard organizations in each state, the D.C. Guard is the lone exception to this mandate: Its sole mission is to protect the Federal Government. Because Congress eliminated the jurisdiction of Virginia and Maryland when creating the seat of our Federal Government, there is no Governor to command the Guard; instead it reports directly and exclusively to the President.

But the hands-on supervision and control of the D.C. National Guard was delegated by the President to the Secretary of Defense in Executive Order 10030 issued on 26 January 1949. The Order also hands the Secretary of Defense the authority to designate Officers and/or officials from the National Military Establishment to oversee and manage the D.C. Guard’s affairs.

In practice, this led to the Secretary of Defense to issue a memorandum dated 2 February 1949 that named the Secretary of the Army as the Defense Secretary’s proxy in handling all aspects related to the ground component of the Guard and the Secretary of the Air Force to do the same for the air component.

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