690th Maintenance Battalion
The distinctive unit insignia was approved on 28 September 1971, consisting of a light blue enamel gear wheel of twelve cogs behind a dark blue enamel scroll arched to base from just below the center cog at either side of the wheel, the scroll inscribed in gold with the word "UNPARALLELED", and rising above it three northern points of a gold compass rose with central pointer extended above the upper perimeter of the cogwheel and terminated with a demi-fleur-de-lis between the points of two red enamel stylized hammerheads their opposite ends square their red handles issuant from between the points of the compass rose; the compass point and hammerheads obscuring the upper three cogs of the wheel. Crimson and light blue are the colors used for Maintenance. The hammers and cogwheel are symbolic of the basic maintenance mission of the Battalion. The unit's location in North Carolina, sometimes call "The Old North State" is suggested by the northern points of the compass rose and its situation upon the curving blue scroll, suggesting a river, further refers to the unit's headquarters at Kinston, North Carolina on the Neuse River.
The 690th Maintenance Battalion took part in training exercises at the National Training Center at Fort Irwin in late May 2003.
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