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ATM Flag V.2011

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This is the 2011 version of the flag belonging to my reenactment group, "Asociatia Traditia Militara" [link] or this for the page in Romanian, which has a lot more info: [link] .

Although the flag itself was designed back in 2009 as a small 45X45cm piece to be carried stuck in the rifle barrel of the last man in the formation, by 2010 we had a full size (100X100cm) flag we carried with us underneath the Triumphal Arch of Bucharest for the annual National Day Parade [link] [link] [link] (the last photo is actually from 2011)

However, by 2011 the flag changed a bit, because we added two new units to our portfolio. Here is the original version form 2009, on our forum, if you want to look at the differences: [link] (link in Romanian, I'm sorry, but the pictures are actually higher quality than the ones I have here)

When it comes to symbols, the middle emblem is that of our association, set on a wreath similar to that of the 1872 flag [link] and it represents a red Dacian Dragon (Draco), wrapped around the yellow Roman Fascia and holding a cross in its mouth, on an azure shield (thus forming the tricolour of Romania). The shield is actually an inescutcheon, because it is further set upon a green Romanian Cross (while I, personally, am non-religious, the vast majority of our population is, including the army, who has a long tradition of association with the Church) and backed by two crossed swords - the Dacian falx (the crooked one) and the Roman gladius.
The cross also bears the initials of our Association and, on the bottom arm, the emblem of the European Union of Military-Historical Groups [link] , which which we are affiliated.

The smaller emblems are those of the various regiments we reenact, from the top left across both sides fo the flag, going boustrophedon:
1st Border Guard Regiment (WW1,WW2), The Marine Infantry Regiment (Romania only ever had one and it served during WW2), 2nd Guard Rifle Regiment "Queen Elisabeth" (1860,1877), 4th Dorobanzes Regiment "Arges" (territorial troops, they fought during the 1877-78 Romanian War of Independence) , 1st Mountain Troops Battalion (WW1, WW2),
IV Line / 21st Infantry Regiment "Ilfov" (it was known as IV Line for 1860 and 1878 the name later changed in 21 infantry for WW1 and WW2), Palace Guard Battalion (WW2) and the 4th Paratroop Battalion (WW2).
There are also two units whose emblems do not appear on the flag proper (due to lack of space) but which are remembered through their mottoes, present on the ribbon below the main charge - "Pro Virtute Militari" (For Military Virtue), motto of the Military Firemen Company Bucharest, which distinguished itself during the 1848 revolution and "Virtus Romana Rediviva" (Roman Virtue Reborn), the motto of the 2nd Romanian Border Guard Regiment Nr.17 "Nasaud", which was one of the very few fully Romanian units which served in the Austrian Army during the Napoleonic Wars and distiguished itself at Arcole, where they, along with a regiment of Slovakian Border guards, held the bridge against Napoleon.
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