Unit Icons
The icon is the innermost part of a symbol which, when displayed, provides an abstract pictorial or alphanumeric representation of an operational object. The icon portrays the role or mission performed by the object. APP-6A distinguishes between icons that must be framed or unframed and icons where framing is optional.
| Unit symbol | Unit type |
|---|---|
| Air Defence (evocative of a protective dome) | |
| Ammunition (stylised breech-loaded, rimmed cartridge or shell) | |
| Anti-tank | |
| Armour (Stylized tank treads) | |
| Field artillery (Simplified version of the Artillery insignia, a cannonball) | |
| Aviation (rotary wing) | |
| Aviation (fixed wing) | |
| Bridging (topographical map symbol for a bridge) | |
| Combat Service Support | |
| Engineer (stylised bridge or other structure) | |
| Electronic Warfare | |
| Explosive Ordnance Disposal | |
| Fuel (Petroleum, Oil, and Lubricants ("POL")) (simplified funnel) | |
| Hospital (personnel) (derivative of the medical symbol below) | |
| HQ | |
| Infantry (evocative of the crossed bandoliers of Napoleonic infantry and the crossed rifles of the U.S. Army's infantry insignia) | |
| Maintenance (stylised crescent wrench) | |
| Medical (evocative of the Red Cross symbol) | |
| Meteorological | |
| Missile (simplified missile) | |
| Mortar | |
| Military Police (or "SP" for Shore Patrol) | |
| Navy | |
| CBRN Defence (simplified crossed retorts, the principal elements in the insignia of the U.S. Army Chemical Corps) | |
| Ordnance (excludes maintenance units of the US Army Ordnance Corps; see maintenance, above) | |
| Radar (stylised lightning flash and parabolic dish) | |
| Psychological Operations (electronic schematic symbol for loudspeaker, evocative of propaganda) | |
| Reconnaissance (or cavalry; inspired by the cavalry's sabre strap) | |
| Signals (simplified lightning flash, evocative of radio signals ) | |
| Special Forces | |
| Special Operations Forces | |
| Supply | |
| Topographical (stylised sextant) | |
| Transportation (simplified wheel) | |
| Unmanned Air Vehicle |
Read more about this topic: NATO Military Symbols For Land Based Systems
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