CROATIA Army 4th Guards Brigade "The Spiders" patch, 1995, War of Independence
Price:
10 - 15 $
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.