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The shield is the fur vair, white and blue, from the arms of Fleville, France. This town was captured by the 16th Infantry on 4 October 1918 after very heavy fighting in the Meuse-Argonne campaign of World War I. The cross arrow and bolo recall the Indian and Philippine fighting and the five-bastioned fort was the badge of the V Corps in Cuba.
The crest is the white Maltese cross of the V Corps in the civil war and it represents the desperate fighting in the Wheatfield and Devil's Den at Gettysburg where the Regiment lost approximately 50 percent of its effective strength. The motto "Always Prepared" has been used by the Regiment since 1908.
Source: http://www.riley.army.mil/Units/1BCT1ID/1-16IN.asp
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