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 (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.
For Enlisted personnel, the insignia is centered on a shoulder loop by placing it an equal distance from the outside shoulder seam to the outside edge of the shoulder-loop button. Officers (except Generals) wearing grade insignia on the shoulder loops center the DUI by placing it an equal distance between the inside edge of the grade insignia and the outside edge of the button. 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.
The Distinctive Unit Insignia of the 368th Engineer Battalion was approved 22 August 1951. In the center of its shield portion is a pile, a device associated with Engineers and Construction and which here is rendered as a point-down triangle, that is charged with the lion taken from the Coat of Arms of Normandy. The pile penetrates the wavy partition line to suggest the Battalion’s assault landing during Operation Overlord.
Below the partition line are rectangular objects called billets, brick-shaped forts that denote the organization’s mission of constructing of defenses and facilities and the removal of obstacles. “FAISONS,” the unit motto, is French for “Let’s Do.”
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The 368th Engineer Battalion was originally constituted in the Army of the United States as the 203rd Engineer Combat Battalion. It would be deployed to France during the Normandy landings in June 1944, earning an Arrowhead device for the Normandy campaign streamer it was later awarded; it was also honored with a French Croix de Guerre with Palm for its service during the battle for Normandy. It would go on to fight in four other campaigns in France and Central Europe before being inactivated in October 1945.
It has been a U.S. Army Reserve unit since it was allotted to the Organized Reserves, the predecessor of Army Reserve, in April 1947. In September 1953, it was reorganized and redesignated as the 368th Engineer Battalion. Since 2000, it has been ordered into active military service on at least four occasions and was selected for a Meritorious Unit Commendation for its service while attached to the 111th Engineer Group in 2003.
In 2012, a Detachment from the Battalion (including the 322nd Engineer Company, 475th Engineer Company, and 650th Engineer Detachment) was tapped for a Meritorious Unit Commendation for service between March and December 2011 for carrying out numerous projects that required sustained construction. These included but were not limited to force-protections improvements, base-camp development, facility refurbishment and repair, and supply-route repair.
As of January 2023, the 368th Engineer Battalion is assigned to the 302nd Maneuver Enhancement Brigade, 412th Theater Engineer Command and is headquartered at Londonderry, New Hampshire.