The 369th Sustainment Brigade is a United States Army

United States Army

The United States Army is the main branch of the United States Armed Forces responsible for land-based military operations. It is the largest and oldest established branch of the U.S. military, and is one of seven U.S. uniformed services...

 sustainment

Sustainment Brigade

As part of the early 21st century transformation of the United States Army from a division-based structure to a brigade-based army; the Division Support Commands, Corps Support Groups, and Area Support Groups are being inactivated or transformed to Sustainment Brigades As part of the early 21st...

 brigade

Brigade

A brigade is a major tactical military formation that is typically composed of two to five battalions, plus supporting elements depending on the era and nationality of a given army and could be perceived as an enlarged/reinforced regiment...

 of the 53rd Troop Command of the New York Army National Guard

New York Army National Guard

The New York Army National Guard is a component of the New York National Guard and the Army National Guard. Nationwide, the Army National Guard comprises approximately one half of the US Army's available combat forces and approximately one third of its support organization...

 headquartered out of Harlem

Harlem

Harlem is a neighborhood in the New York City borough of Manhattan, which since the 1920s has been a major African-American residential, cultural and business center. Originally a Dutch village, formally organized in 1658, it is named after the city of Haarlem in the Netherlands...

, New York. This unit is descended from the 369th Infantry Regiment.

Organization

The 369th Sustainment Brigade is currently assigned directly to the 53rd Troop Command . Subordinate elements of the 369th are:

• 369th Brigade Special Troops Battalion
  Special Troops Battalion
  A Special Troops Battalion is an organic unit of a modular brigade, Division , corps or higher echelon United States Army organization...
  
  
  • Headquarters & Headquarters Company, 369th SB
  • Early Entry Element, 369th SB
  • Signal Company, 369th SB
  • 145th Maintenance Company
  • 133rd Quartermaster Company
  • 719th Transportation Company
  • 1569th Transportation Company
  • 27th Finance Company
• 101st Expeditionary Signal Battalion
  • HHC 101 ESB
  • A Co 101 ESB
  • B Co 101 ESB
  • C Co 101 ESB
• 104th Military Police Battalion (Kingston, New York
  • HHD, 104th Military Police Battalion, Kingston
  • 727th Military Police Detachment Law & Order, Poughkeepsie
  • 466th Area Medical Company, Queensbury
  • 222nd Chemical Company, Brooklyn
  • 442nd Military Police Company (United States), Jamaica)

Insignia

The shoulder sleeve insignia is an embroidered shield with a blue border blazoned with Argent

Argent

In heraldry, argent is the tincture of silver, and belongs to the class of light tinctures, called "metals". It is very frequently depicted as white and usually considered interchangeable with it...

 and Gules

Gules

In heraldry, gules is the tincture with the colour red, and belongs to the class of dark tinctures called "colours". In engraving, it is sometimes depicted as a region of vertical lines or else marked with gu. as an abbreviation....

 chevron between three counterchanged palets (vertical bars), and two Vert

Vert

The colour green is commonly found in modern flags and coat of arms, and to a lesser extent also in the classical heraldry of the Late Middle Ages and the Early Modern period....

poplar trees. It was approved for the 369th Sustainment Brigade on 7 February 2008.

The chevron symbolize the unit’s mission of support. The palets/vertical bars signify military strength and allude to the three campaigns in Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, and Iraq. The counterchanged colors of the palets/vertical bars signify the various transformations of the unit to become the 396th Sustainment Brigade. The poplar tree, adapted from the 369th Infantry Battalion’s coat of arms, indicates the Brigade perpetuating the lineage of the Battalion.

The distinctive unit insignia is a silver metal and enamel device. It consists of a blue shield charged with a silver rattlesnake coiled and ready to strike. The snake image, used on some colonial flags, is associated with the thirteen original colonies. The silver rattlesnake on the blue shield was the distinctive regimental insignia of the 369th Infantry Regiment, ancestor of the unit, and alludes to the service of the organization during World War I.

The distinctive unit insignia, originally approved for the 369th Infantry Regiment on 17 April 1923, was redesignated several times: for the 369th Coast Artillery Regiment on 3 December 1940; for the 369th Antiaircraft Artillery Gun Battalion on 7 January 1944; for the 569th Field Artillery Battalion on 14 August 1956; for the 369th Artillery Regiment on 4 April 1962. It was amended to correct the wording of the description on 2 September 1964. It was further redesignated: for the 569th Transportation Battalion and amended to add a motto on 13 March 1969; for the 369th Transportation Battalion and amended to delete the motto on 14 January 1975; for the 369th Support Battalion and amended to revise the description and symbolism on 2 November 1994; for the 369th Sustainment Brigade and amended to revise the description and symbolism on 20 July 2007.

External links

• US Army Institute of Heraldry page for the 369th Sustainment Brigade