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 Shoulder Sleeve Insignia: Scarlet and yellow are the colors associated with Field Artillery. The cannon ball or black disc centered on the yellow one connotes accuracy of fire. The pheons (arrowheads) are symbolic of fire power and their configuration with the yellow disc forms an allusion to the unit’s numerical designation, 72.
-Distinctive Unit Insignia: Scarlet is the color used for Field Artillery. The cannon and ramrods symbolize the basic mission of Field Artillery. The three gunstones and flames allude to the organization’s three battle honors earned during World War I and World War II in Lorraine, Rhineland and Central Europe.
+Distinctive Unit Insignia: Scarlet is the color used for Field Artillery. The cannon and ramrods symbolize the basic mission of Field Artillery. The three gunstones and flames allude to the organization’s three battle honors earned during World War I and World War II in [[Lorraine]], Rhineland and Central Europe.
 The shoulder sleeve insignia was approved effective 16 September 1980. The distinctive unit insignia was originally approved for the 72d Artillery Group on 16 August 1968. It was redesignated for the 72d Field Artillery Group on 7 April 1972. The insignia was redesignated effective 16 September 1980 for the 72d Field Artillery Brigade.