Distinctive Unit Insignia - Authorization

Authorization

• Paragraph 28-22 of Army Regulation 670-1 authorizes the following types of units to wear a distinctive unit insignia:

• Distinctive unit insignia (DUI) of a design approved by The Institute of Heraldry, U.S. Army, are authorized and prescribed for wear on the service uniforms of personnel in the following echelons.

1. Major Command (MACOM): one design for each MACOM.
2. Field armies: one design for each field Army.
3. Regional readiness commands (RRC).
4. Corps: one design for each corps.
5. Division: one design for each division.
6. Separate brigades: one design for each separate TOE brigade.
7. Numbered group: one design for each TOE numbered group.
8. Color-bearing regiments; training support battalions aligned to color-bearing regiments; and separate battalions, fixed type: one design for each regiment and separate TOE battalion.
9. Battalions, flexible: one design for each TOE battalion.
10. Hospitals: one design for each TOE hospital.
11. U.S. Army service schools established by the Department of the Army: one design for each service school.
12. U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command training centers: one design for each training center.
13. U.S. Army medical centers: one design for each center.
14. U.S. Army medical department activities: one design for each activity.
15. U.S. Army hospital centers: one design for each center.
16. U.S. Army dental activities (DENTAC): one design for each activity.
17. Army National Guard Total Army Service Schools (TASS): one design for all TASS activities.
18. U.S. Army Reserve schools: one design for all USAR schools.
19. Field operating agencies: one design for each activity based on the following criteria.
    1. An identifiable command structure.
    2. A valid justification in terms of unit mission, enhancement of unit morale, and degree of unit permanency.
    3. At least 250 military personnel assigned to the activity.
20. Other organizations: one design for each organization, except U.S. Army garrison (active and reserve), meeting the following criteria.
    1. An identifiable command structure.
    2. A valid justification in terms of unit mission, enhancement of unit morale, and degree of unit permanency.
    3. At least 500 military personnel assigned to the organization.
21. Other.
    1. Organizations not in the categories listed above, which have a DUI by virtue of previous HQDA authority, are permitted to retain that DUI if manufactured and worn by members of the subject organization. In each case, such insignia is authorized for wear only after The Institute of Heraldry, U.S. Army, has determined the propriety, and granted approval of the insignia.
    2. Units not authorized a DUI in their own right will wear the DUI of the command to which assigned. Those units not authorized a DUI in their own right, and not assigned to a higher echelon that is authorized a DUI, may, with the approval of the Army commander concerned, wear the DUI of the Army area in which located. Personnel participating in the AGR and ROTC simultaneous membership programs will wear the DUI of the commands, units, and agencies to which attached.
    3. Personnel assigned to a joint command, DOD, or Federal agency will wear the DUI designated for joint or DOD agencies.
22. Provisional units. The authorization of a DUI will not be granted for provisional units.