The battalion coat of arms represents the origin and history of the 13th Engineer Battalion. In the upper left quadrant of the shield is the crest of the 5th Engineers with the colors reversed. The 5th was formed from the 2nd Engineers whose units go back to 1861. The five-bastioned fort, in addition to indicating the number of the parent regiment, recalls the Santiago Campaign of 1898 and the crescent, the fighting against the Philippine Moros. The white of the canton with the red upper half of the shield forms the engineer colors and the green indicted the original school stations of the battalion.

The 13th Engineer Battalion motto is:

In All Things Prepared!

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