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448th Supply Chain Management Group


Emblem


Description

Azure, a chevron Argent, overall a fess Or, with chain link border Silver Gray, in base a gear wheel of the like surmounted by a lightning flash of the third and in chief, on the chevron point, an aerial bomb point to base of the first, all within a diminished bordure Yellow. 

Attached below the shield, a White scroll edged with a narrow Yellow border and inscribed "448TH SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT GROUP” in Blue letters.



Symbolism

Ultramarine blue and Air Force yellow are the Air Force colors.  Blue alludes to the sky, the primary theater of Air Force operations.  Yellow refers to the sun and the excellence required of Air Force personnel.  The chevron symbolizes aircraft and the gear wheel and lightning flash represent the engines that power those aircraft.  The fess signifies the mission, bordered by the chain links that stand for the supply chain to include acquisition, repair, storage, distribution, disposal, and technical and engineering services.  The bomb in chief recalls the original designation of the parent wing.