Lineage and Honors Information as of 20 Oct 2020
1st Battalion
160th Aviation Regiment
(Night Stalkers)
- Constituted 1 April 1982 in the Regular Army as Company A, 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 A, 160th Aviation
- Reorganized and redesignated 16 May 1990 as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 1st Battalion, 160th Aviation (organic elements concurrently constituted and activated)
- Redesignated 1 October 2005 as 1st Battalion, 160th Aviation Regiment
Campaign Participation Credit
- Armed Forces Expeditions
- Grenada
- Panama
- Somalia
- War on Terrorism
- Afghanistan
- Liberation of Afghanistan
- Consolidation I
- Consolidation II
- Consolidation III
- Iraq
- Liberation of Iraq
- Transition of Iraq
- Iraqi Governance
- National Resolution
- Iraqi Surge
- Iraqi Sovereignty
- New Dawn
Company C additionally entitled to:
- Southwest Asia
- Liberation and Defense of Kuwait
Decorations
- Presidential Unit Citation (Army), Streamer embroidered AFGHANISTAN 2001
- Presidential Unit Citation (Army), Streamer embroidered IRAQ 2014
- Presidential Unit Citation (Army), Streamer embroidered IRAQ 2015
- Valorous Unit Award, Streamer embroidered SOMALIA
- Valorous Unit Award, Streamer embroidered IRAQ 2003
- Air Force Meritorious Unit Award, Streamer embroidered AFGHANISTAN 2012-2013
- Army Superior Unit Award, Streamer embroidered 2013-2014
By Order of the Secretary of the Army:
CHARLES R. BOWERY, JR.
Chief of Military History