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Lineage and Honors Information as of 10 May 2011

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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


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