I watched today a short video about an Asian bear who was adopted during WWII by the 22nd Artillery Unit in the Polish Army whom they named Wojtek (happy warrior). Wojtek was eventually drafted into the unit and assisted greatly during ensuing battles and made it to the rank of corporal.
Eventually, the unit adopted a new insignia: Wojtek holding an artillery shell (now my profile pic).
And I'm left here wondering, as an art-and-graphics enthusiast and a former artillery corpsman, why in Hashem's Name, does every artillery unit have a cool symbol but mine?
Meet the 411th Battalion, Gdud "Keren". Keren means either horn or ray. The proginators of the battalion decided to go with the latter. And lo and behold, Keren's insignia is...a Howitzer on a sun backdrop. A sun? Seriously? Instead of blasting our enemies with explosive fire, we'll give them milk 'n' cookies and hugs 'n' rainbows 'n' pretty suns.
Oy gevalt...
I've seen an artillery insignia that has a shell designed like a shark. I've seen one with a tiger, one with a dragon (albeit, a lame-looking one, but still cooler), one with a stag, etc. But we get stuck with a pretty sun...sigh.
Why couldn't we have gotten some kind of horned creature? A rhino, a goat, a stag, a ram, even a unicorn...
Just some maddening thoughts I have on the subject...
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