Army Medical Department regimental coat of arms

The regimental coat of arms of the Army Medical Department of the United States Army—known as the AMEDD—is an heraldic emblem dating back, with slight variations, to about 1863.

Its iconography and design harkened back to 1818, which is the year Congress created a permanent Army "Medical Department", as opposed to the ad hoc organizations that had existed before.

The ancient Greeks believed that the rooster's crowing at dawn drove away the evil disease spreading demons from the temples so that it could be a place of healing.

The AMEDD Regimental Distinctive Insignia incorporated the shield from the AMEDD regimental coat of arms and the motto ("To Conserve Fighting Strength") of the Medical Field Service School's (established 1920) distinctive unit insignia.

The current design of the AMEDD regimental distinctive insignia was approved on 27 October 2014.

U.S. Army Medical Department (AMEDD) regimental coat of arms, ca. 1863.
The AMEDD Regimental Insignia (derived from the coat of arms) in its new (2014) revised version.
The U.S. Army Medical Department Regimental Flag incorporates all elements of the AMEDD CoA.