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Lineage and Honors Information as of 3 April 2012

2d BATTALION,
158th AVIATION REGIMENT

  • Constituted 25 July 1968 in the Regular Army as Company B, 158th Aviation Battalion, an element of the 101st Airborne Division, and activated at Fort Carson, Colorado
  • Reorganized and redesignated 16 September 1987 as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 2d Battalion, 158th Aviation, and relieved from assignment to the 101st Airborne Division (organic elements concurrently constituted and activated)
  • Inactivated 15 September 1996 at Fort Hood, Texas
  • Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 2d Battalion, 158th Aviation, redesignated 16 October 1997 as Company B, 158th Aviation, and activated at Fort Hood, Texas
  • Redesignated 1 October 2005 as Company B, 158th Aviation Regiment
  • Inactivated 15 January 2008 at Fort Hood, Texas
  • Redesignated 17 October 2011 as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 2d Battalion, 158th Aviation Regiment, and activated at Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Washington (organic elements concurrently activated)

Campaign Participation Credit

  • Vietnam
  • *Counteroffensive, Phase VI
  • *Tet 69/Counteroffensive
  • *Summer-Fall 1969
  • *Winter-Spring 1970
  • *Sanctuary Counteroffensive
  • *Counteroffensive, Phase VII
  • *Consolidation I
  • *Consolidation II
  • Southwest Asia
  • *Defense of Saudi Arabia
  • *Liberation and Defense of Kuwait
  • *Cease-Fire

Decorations

  • *Presidential Unit Citation (Army), Streamer embroidered DONG AP BIA MOUNTAIN
  • *Presidential Unit Citation (Army), Streamer embroidered HO CHI MINH TRAIL
  • *Valorous Unit Award, Streamer embroidered THUA THIEN PROVINCE 1970
  • *Republic of Vietnam Cross of Gallantry with Palm, Streamer embroidered VIETNAM 1969
  • *Republic of Vietnam Cross of Gallantry with Palm, Streamer embroidered VIETNAM 1971
  • *Republic of Vietnam Civil Action Honor Medal, First Class, Streamer embroidered VIETNAM 1969-1970
  • *Republic of Vietnam Civil Action Honor Medal, First Class, Streamer embroidered VIETNAM 1970

By Order of the Secretary of the Army:

Robert J. Dalessandro
Director, Center of Military History


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