Emblem Description
Azure, between flaunches Or bearing fleures-de-lis of the first a "sky sword" Yellow charged on the grip with a spring of laurel Blue; all within a diminished bordure Celeste. Approved 15 September 1967 (K 11275), modified on 28 February 1995; replaced emblem approved on 9 July 1959 (10416 A.C.).
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