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Blazon
- Shield: Azure, a mailed dexter hand grasping an oak branch fructed Or debruised by a bend wavy Argent charged with a broken chain Sable, on a chief of the last a portcullis of the third.
- Crest:
- That for the regiments and separate battalions of the Army Reserve: From a wreath Argent and Azure, the Lexington Minute Man Proper.
- The statue of the Minute Man, Captain John Parker (H.H. Kitson, sculptor), stands on the common in Lexington, Massachusetts.
- Motto: CLEAR THE WAY.
Symbolism
- Shield: The mailed gauntlet grasping the oak branch symbolizes the drive through the Argonne Forest in World War I; the broken chain, the rescue of the surrounded troops; the bend represents the Vesle River; the portcullis, Grand Pré.
- Crest: The crest is that of the U.S. Army Reserve.
Background
- The coat of arms was originally approved for the 307th Infantry Regiment, Organized Reserves on 1924-05-12.
- It was amended to withdraw "Organized Reserves" from the designation and to delete the Organized Reserves' crest from the coat of arms on 1959-08-10.
- On 1970-07-28 it was amended to reinstate the crest of the Army Reserve and revise the symbolism for the 307th Infantry Regiment.
- The coat of arms was redesignated for the 307th Regiment (Training) on 1999-04-08.
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