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Lineage and Honors Information as of 20 December 2011

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HEADQUARTERS
1st BRIGADE COMBAT TEAM,
82d AIRBORNE DIVISION

 

            Constituted 5 August 1917 in the National Army as Headquarters Troop, 82d Division

            Organized 25 August 1917 at Camp Gordon, Georgia

            Demobilized 27 May 1919 at Camp Mills, New York

            Reconstituted 24 June 1921 in the Organized Reserves as Headquarters Company, 82d Division

            Organized in January 1922 at Columbia, South Carolina

            Reorganized and redesignated 13 February 1942 as Headquarters and Military Police Company (less Military Police Platoon), 82d Division

            Ordered into active military service 25 March 1942 and reorganized at Camp Claiborne, Louisiana

            Reorganized and redesignated 15 August 1942 as Headquarters Company, 82d Airborne Division

            (Organized Reserves redesignated 25 March 1948 as the Organized Reserve Corps)

            Withdrawn 15 November 1948 from the Organized Reserve Corps and allotted to the Regular Army

            Reorganized and redesignated 1 September 1957 as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, Command and Control Battalion, 82d Airborne Division

            Reorganized and redesignated 25 May 1964 as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 1st Brigade, 82d Airborne Division

            Headquarters, 1st Brigade, 82d Airborne Division, reorganized and redesignated 16 June 2006 as Headquarters, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 82d Airborne Division (Headquarters Company, 1st Brigade, 82d Airborne Division – hereafter separate lineage)

 

CAMPAIGN PARTICIPATION CREDIT

World War I
St. Mihiel
Meuse-Argonne
Lorraine 1918

World War II
Sicily
Naples-Foggia
Normandy (with arrowhead)
Rhineland (with arrowhead)
Ardennes-Alsace
Central Europe

Armed Forces Expeditions
Dominican Republic
Panama (with arrowhead)

Southwest Asia
Defense of Saudi Arabia
Liberation and Defense of Kuwait
                                   
War on Terrorism
Campaigns to be determined


DECORATIONS

            Presidential Unit Citation (Army), Streamer embroidered STE. MERE EGLISE

            Valorous Unit Award, Streamer embroidered AFGHANISTAN 2003

            Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), Streamer embroidered SOUTHWEST ASIA 1990-1991

            Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), Streamer embroidered IRAQ 2010

            French Croix de Guerre with Palm, World War II, Streamer embroidered STE. MERE EGLISE

            French Croix de Guerre with Palm, World War II, Streamer embroidered COTENTIN
           
            French Croix de Guerre, World War II, 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 in Belgium and             Germany

            Military Order of William (Degree of the Knight of the Fourth Class), Streamer embroidered NIJMEGEN 1944

            Netherlands Orange Lanyard

BY ORDER OF THE SECRETARY OF THE ARMY: 

 

 

ROBERT J. DALESSANDRO
Director, Center of Military History


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