CMH Home
CMH 		
      Home
Lineage And Honors Information

Lineage and Honors Information as of 20 December 2011

Department of the Army Emblem

Department of the Army - Lineage and Honors

2d BATTALION,
160th AVIATION REGIMENT
(NIGHT STALKERS)

 

            Constituted 1 April 1982 in the Regular Army as Company B, 160th Aviation Battalion, an element of the 101st Airborne Division, and activated at Fort Campbell, Kentucky

            (160th Aviation Battalion relieved 16 October 1986 from assignment to the 101st Airborne Division)

            Reorganized and redesignated 16 January 1988 as Company B, 160th Aviation

            Reorganized and redesignated 16 May 1990 as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 2d Battalion, 160th Aviation (organic elements concurrently constituted and activated)

            Redesignated 1 October 2005 as the 2d Battalion, 160th Aviation Regiment

 

CAMPAIGN PARTICIPATION CREDIT

  Armed Forces Expedition
*Grenada
*Panama

  Southwest Asia
*Defense of Saudi Arabia
*Liberation and Defense of Kuwait

  War on Terrorism
     Afghanistan:
*Liberation of Afghanistan
*Consolidation I

  Iraq:
*Liberation of Iraq
*Transition of Iraq
*Iraqi Governance
*National Resolution
*Iraqi Surge

(Additional campaigns to be determined)

 

DECORATIONS

            *Valorous Unit Award, Streamer embroidered AFGHANISTAN

            *Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), Streamer embroidered WAR ON TERRORISM 2009-2010

            *Army Superior Unit Award, Streamer embroidered 1997-1998

              Company A additionally entitled to:

     Valorous Unit Award, Streamer embroidered IRAQ MAR-JUN 2003

              Company D additionally entitled to:

     Valorous Unit Award, Streamer embroidered IRAQ MAR-JUN 2003

 

BY ORDER OF THE SECRETARY OF THE ARMY: 

 

 

ROBERT J. DALESSANDRO
Director, Chief of Military History


Return to Branch Index