82nd Aviation Regiment (United States)

[3] A Silver color metal and enamel device 1 1/8 inches in height overall consisting of a shield blazoned: Checky Azure and Argent, a chess knight in profile Sable between two wings displayed inverted Or.

Attached below the shield is a Silver scroll inscribed "GROUND AIR MOBILITY" in Black letters.

The checky field represents a chess board, symbolic of the battlefield, and refers to the strategy of war.

Checky Azure and Argent, a chess knight in profile Sable between two wings displayed inverted Or.

From a wreath Argent and Azure, between two palm fronds Vert a pheon Or superimposed by a sword of the first hilted Gules.

The checky field represents a chess board, symbolic of the battlefield, and refers to the strategy of war.

The red color of the hilt honors the organization's Meritorious Unit Commendation earned in Southwest Asia.

AH-64D Apaches from 1st Battalion (Attack Reconnaissance), 82d Aviation Regiment, descends onto the forward rearming and refueling point to re-load during an aerial gunnery exercise at Fort Walker , VA, 2016
Extraction of a Special Forces detachment by a 2d Battalion, 82d Aviation Regiment UH-60M Black Hawk in Afghanistan, 2010
Paratroopers from the 82d Airborne Division Artillery attach a M119A3 Howitzer to a CH-47F Chinook from 3d Battalion, 82d Aviation Regiment during a division artillery readiness test at Fort Bragg, NC, 2016