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+{|align="center"
+|align="center"|[[File:16infantryus.jpg|center||Coat of arms (crest) of {{PAGENAME}}]]<br> (Coat of Arms)
+|align="center"|[[File:{{PAGENAME}}dui.png|center||Coat of arms (crest) of {{PAGENAME}}]] <br> (Distinctive Unit Insignia)
-''' {{uc:{{PAGENAME}}}} '''
-[[File:{{PAGENAME}}.png|center|350 px|Coat of arms (crest) of the {{PAGENAME}}]]
+|}
 ===Official blazon===
+Shield: Vair Argent and Azure, in chief an Indian arrow and a Philippine bolo in saltire Or and in base a five bastioned fort Gules fimbriated of the third (Or).<br>
+Crest: On a wreath of the colors on a cross pateé Argent a garb Proper pierced by a devil's trident in pale Sable armed Gules.<br>
+Motto: SEMPER PARATUS.
 ===Origin/meaning===
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+The field of vair is derived from arms seen in the Fléville Castle, which is now destroyed, as the regiment was based in [[Fléville]], France, during the First World War. The crossed arrow and bolo recall the Indian and Philippine fighting and the five-bastioned fort that 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 represents the desperate fighting in the Wheatfield and Devil's Den at Gettysburg where the regiment lost approximately 50% of its effective strength. The motto "Always Prepared" has been in use by the regiment since 1907.
+{|align="center"
+|align="center"|[[File:{{PAGENAME}}1.jpg|center|350 px|Blason de {{PAGENAME}}]] <br/>The arms on a memorial in Fléville, France ([https://mapio.net/pic/p-8781123/ source])
+|}
+====Colour====
+<gallery perrow=0>
+File:col16inf3bn.jpg|Colour of the 3rd Battalion, 16th Infantry Regiment.
+</gallery>
+[[Literature]]: Colour from https://16thinfassn.org/history/regimental-colors/
+{{us}}
 {{media}}
-[[Literature]]:
 [[Category:Military heraldry of the United States]]
+[[Category:Army heraldry]]