Lineage and Honors Information as of 10 May 2011
HEADQUARTERS
1st BRIGADE COMBAT TEAM,
2d INFANTRY DIVISION
Constituted 21 September 1917 in the Regular Army as Headquarters Troop, 2d Division
Organized 8 October 1917 at Fort Ethan Allen, Vermont
Reorganized and redesignated 18 February 1921 as Headquarters and Military Police Company (less Military Police Platoon), 2d Division
Reorganized and redesignated 22 July 1942 as Headquarters Company, 2d Division
Redesignated 1 August 1942 as Headquarters Company, 2d Infantry Division
Disbanded 2 May 1960 at Fort Benning, Georgia
Reconstituted 25 January 1963 in the Regular Army as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 1st Brigade, 2d Infantry Division
Activated 16 April 1963 at Fort Benning, Georgia
Headquarters, 1st Brigade, 2d Infantry Division, reorganized and redesignated 16 June 2005 as Headquarters, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 2d Infantry Division (Headquarters Company, 1st Brigade, 2d Infantry Division – hereafter separate lineage)
CAMPAIGN PARTICIPATION CREDIT
World War I
Aisne
Aisne-Marne
St. Mihiel
Meuse-Argonne
Ile de France 1918
Lorraine 1918
World War II
Normandy
Northern France
Rhineland
Ardennes-Alsace
Central Europe
Korean War
UN Defensive
UN Offensive
CCF Intervention
First UN Counteroffensive
CCF Spring Offensive
UN Summer-Fall Offensive
Second Korean Winter
Korea, Summer-Fall 1952
Third Korean Winter
Korea, Summer 1953
DECORATIONS
Presidential Unit Citation (Army), Streamer embroidered HONGCHON
French Croix de Guerre with Palm, World War I, Streamer embroidered AISNE-MARNE
French Croix de Guerre with Palm, World War I, Streamer embroidered MEUSE-ARGONNE
French Croix de Guerre, World War I, Fourragere
Belgian Fourragere 1940
Cited in the Order of the Day of the Belgian Army for action in the Ardennes
Cited in the Order of the Day of the Belgian Army for action at Elsenborn Crest
Republic of Korea Presidential Unit Citation, Streamer embroidered NAKTONG RIVER LINE
Republic of Korea Presidential Unit Citation, Streamer embroidered KOREA
BY ORDER OF THE SECRETARY OF THE ARMY:
ROBERT J. DALESSANDRO
Director, Center of Military History