The 26th Infantry Regiment is a regiment

Regiment

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 of the United States Army

United States Army

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. Its nickname is Blue Spaders, taken from the spade-like device on the regiment's distinctive unit insignia. The 26th Infantry Regiment is part of the U.S. Army Regimental System

U.S. Army Regimental System

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 and currently exists as only a single Battalion, the 1st BN, 26th Infantry Regiment (1-26 IN), and is therefore classified as both a single battalion, and the remainder of the regiment itself.

• Shield:

1. Argent, a royal palm branch paleways Proper, on a chief embattled Azure five Mohawk arrowheads of the first.
2. For informal use, the shield encircled by a fourragére in the colors of the French Croix de Guerre.
   • Crest: On a wreath of the colors Argent and Azure a sun in splendor charged with a Mohawk arrowhead Azure.
   • Motto: PALMAM QUI MERUIT FERAT (Let Him Bear The Palm Who Has Won It).
   • Symbolism:
3. The shield is white with a blue chief, the old and the present Infantry colors.
4. The dividing line embattled stands for the entrenchments which the regiment has so many times assaulted.
5. The Mohawk arrowhead was the regimental insignia during World War I.