A pale of green and shield of yellow from the insignia portion of the 724th Military Police Battalion Distinctive Unit Insignia incorporates the primary and secondary branch colors of the Military Police Corps and reinforces them with the image of the scales of justice held aloft by a sword. Scales, of course, represent equal justice based upon the weight of the evidence, while an upright sword is an almost universal symbol of military preparedness and security. The black border upon which the unit motto “Honor Commitment Justice” is inscribed in yellow/gold is a sign of strength and stability, while gold is the color of excellence and lofty achievement.
Also known as a unit crest or DUI, the 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.
Full guidance on wear of the DUI is found in DA Pamphlet 670-1,
Section 21-22, "Distinctive unit insignia."
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The 724th Military Police Battalion DUI was approved on 21 May 1992, while the organization’s beginnings can be traced to the date, just over fifty years earlier, that the 724th Military Police Battalion was constituted in the Army of the United States on 15 January 1942 and activated ten days later at Camp Blanding in Florida. Deployed to the Pacific, the Battalion earned an uninscribed Asiatic-Pacific Theater campaign streamer before its inactivation in Hawaii on 20 April 1946.
Just under a year later, it would be redesignated as the 326th Military Police battalion, allotted to the Organized Reserves (which later became today’s Army Reserve), and activated at St. Louis, Missouri. It was again inactivated on 30 March 1951, and while inactive was redesignated with its original title of 724th Military Police battalion in June 1953. Nearly four decades elapsed before the HQ and HQ Detachment, 724th Military Police Battalion was activated on 16 December 1991 at Tallahassee, Florida. It was relocated to its current home station at Fort Lauderdale on 15 July 1997.
The HHD, 724th MP Battalion was ordered into active military service in late December 2000 at Ft. Lauderdale and would be no released from it until 9 April 2004 when it was returned to Reserve status. The HHD was called into service once again in 2007 and deployed to Afghanistan in support of Operation Enduring Freedom. In September 2009, it was selected for a Meritorious Unit Commendation for its outstanding service between 20 December 2007 and 12 September 2008, with the announcement specifically citing the unit’s superior handling of the operation of Bagram Theater Internment Facility as well as its convoy escort operations, protection missions for provisional reconstructions teams, and provost marshal law-and-order missions at forward operating bases.
As of July 2021, the Battalion’s HHD had been redesignated as Headquarters and Headquarters Company but remained stationed at Fort Lauderdale, Florida.