CROATIA Army 1st Mechanized Guards Brigade patch, 2nd type, 1992, War of Independence

Fully silk embroidered on black cloth base. Issued between- 1992 and- 2008.

The 1st Brigade was initially formed on November 5, 1990 from volunteers and elements of the Croatian Police. Initially, lack of equipment forced the unit to be a wholly Infantry brigade, but this was soon corrected and the unit became a Motorized Infantry brigade by September- 1991, when major military operations in the war begun. By the end of- 1992, the Brigade was redesignated 1st Mechanized Guard Brigade. It was the most elite and best equipped military brigade of the Croatian Army. In- 2008, as part of a larger military restructuring, the brigade-sized unit was disbanded and reformed as a battalion of the new Motorized Guard Brigade.