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Coat of Arms.

[edit] Blazon:

  • Shield: Or, a bend Azure between a Moro kris paleways point up Sable, and a rattlesnake coiled to strike Proper.
  • Crest: On a wreath of the colors Or and Azure, a dexter arm embowed habited Azure, the hand gloved in a buckskin gauntlet Proper, grasping a staff erect Sable barbed Or, thereon a standard flotant of the last charged with a horseshoe heels upward encircling the Arabic numeral “14” in Black.
  • Motto: SUIVEZ MOI (Follow Me).

[edit] Symbolism:

  • Shield: The shield is yellow for cavalry, the bend is in the color of the uniform worn at the time of the regiment’s formation (1901).
    The kris is for Moro campaigns and the rattlesnake for service on the Mexican border.
  • Background: The coat of arms was originally approved for the 14th Cavalry Regiment on 4 May 1921.
    It was amended to reword the approval on 1 October 1923.
    It was redesignated for the 14th Armored Cavalry Regiment on 6 April 1949.
    The coat of arms was redesignated for the 14th Cavalry Regiment on 28 August 2000
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