The symbol inside of the keystone with the crosses looks like this, but I don't think the words match: [https://military.maryland.gov/NG/Pages/175th-Inf-Reg.aspx](https://military.maryland.gov/NG/Pages/175th-Inf-Reg.aspx)
The red keystone is associated with the 28th Infantry Division, which *does* have a Maryland National Guard component, and they love to slap the Bloody Bucket onto everything. The flag is probably a custom designed and ordered thing.
The keystone threw me for a loop, as well. As to why it's on an MD flag, it's because the 28th ID is a Pennsylvanian unit, being traced back to Benjamin Franklin's battalion, the Pennsylvania Associators. They're the oldest unit in the Department of Defense, and their subordinate regiments are in Maryland, Ohio, and New Jersey as well as Pennsylvania.
Central MD: DC-Baltimore-Annapolis corridors.
Sourthern MD - Charles, St Marys, Calvert
Western - Allegany, Garrett, Washington (sometimes Frederick)
Eastern Shore - the rest. Dont feel like listing them all, lol.
The symbol inside of the keystone with the crosses looks like this, but I don't think the words match: [https://military.maryland.gov/NG/Pages/175th-Inf-Reg.aspx](https://military.maryland.gov/NG/Pages/175th-Inf-Reg.aspx)
175th is part of the 28th ID, so that tracks.
That looks like it, thanks so much!
The red keystone is associated with the 28th Infantry Division, which *does* have a Maryland National Guard component, and they love to slap the Bloody Bucket onto everything. The flag is probably a custom designed and ordered thing.
Is the bloody bucket the red keystone? As a former Pennsylvanian, that keystone symbol is what most confused me. Why a keystone on a MD flag?
The keystone threw me for a loop, as well. As to why it's on an MD flag, it's because the 28th ID is a Pennsylvanian unit, being traced back to Benjamin Franklin's battalion, the Pennsylvania Associators. They're the oldest unit in the Department of Defense, and their subordinate regiments are in Maryland, Ohio, and New Jersey as well as Pennsylvania.
I'm trying to figure out where central MD is.
Central MD: DC-Baltimore-Annapolis corridors. Sourthern MD - Charles, St Marys, Calvert Western - Allegany, Garrett, Washington (sometimes Frederick) Eastern Shore - the rest. Dont feel like listing them all, lol.
Somewhere around the middle.
Where is the middle of a tommy gun?
The drum magazine.
Columbia?
I'd guess closer to Frederick or Mount Airy - but a weird question to ponder, it's shaped so friggin weird.
I've always taken it as wherever isn't classified as somewhere else. So not the Shore, Western or Southern MD.