Emblem Badge XII Motorized Infantry Division with Velcro

The 12th Motorized Infantry Division (XII M/K MP "Evros") is a military formation of the Hellenic Army based in Alexandroupoli, Thrace.

• DEPICTION: Two fighting roosters clashing with each other. It symbolizes the determination of the Division to fight to the final defeat of the enemy, just as the fighting roosters do.
• MOTTO: “UNTIL THE OTHER FALLS”
• “The institutions of both were similar to the struggling noble birds. For they often, having lost their wings from weakness, yet remaining with this spirit, they expel their wounds, until they themselves, falling by chance and easily escaping each other, and after this occurs one of them happens to fall.”
• Polybius, Histories, I, 58, 7-9.
• “The entire conduct (behavior) of both (Romans and Carthaginians) resembled the noble roosters fighting to the last. For they also often, while having lost their wings from the inability to overcome each other, insisting with mental strength, disregard their wounds, until they fall upon each other and seize one another until one of them falls first.”