The 336th Transportation Group Shoulder Sleeve Insignia, also called an SSI or unit patch, was approved for wear on 7 June 2007, less than a year before a ceremony was held at Lake Forest College in Illinois on 2 March 2008 to case the unit’s colors one last time. As part of a restructuring of the Army Reserve, the 336th was one of the last five Transportation Groups to be inactivated. It was replaced by the 371st Transportation Detachment, which had been inactivated during the Vietnam War.
A shield forms the basis of the 336th Transportation Group unit patch, a symbol of the protection required to accomplish every mission. Brick red and golden yellow are the official branch colors of the Transportation Corps. Five stylized arrows are a reference to the Red Ball Express, a hastily assembled but highly effective emergency convoy system created in the weeks after the D-Day Invasion that brought the unit directly to the front lines and inspired the motto, "Up Front When It Counts." The dark red color if for the shed blood of Soldiers who sacrificed their lives for the country, mission, and cause for which they fought, and the 13 stars refer to the 13 founding colonies.
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