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Lineage and Honors Information as of 25 May 2011

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HEADQUARTERS
2d BRIGADE COMBAT TEAM,
1st ARMORED DIVISION
(IRON BRIGADE)

 

Organized 1 January 1942 in the Regular Army at Fort Knox, Kentucky, as Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment, Combat Command B, 1st Armored Division

Reorganized and redesignated 20 July 1944 as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, Combat Command B, 1st Armored Division

Inactivated 9 April 1946 at Camp Kilmer, New Jersey

Activated 7 March 1951 at Fort Hood, Texas

Inactivated 23 December 1957 at Fort Polk, Louisiana

Redesignated 3 February 1962 as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 2d Brigade, 1st Armored Division, and activated at Fort Hood, Texas

Headquarters, 2d Brigade, 1st Armored Division, reorganized and redesignated
16 September 2010 as Headquarters, 2d Brigade Combat Team, 1st Armored Division (Headquarters Company, 2d Brigade, 1st Armored Division – hereafter separate lineage)

 

CAMPAIGN PARTICIPATION CREDIT

                                                World War II
                                                Algeria-French Morocco (with arrowhead)
                                                Tunisia
                                                Naples-Foggia
                                                Anzio
                                                Rome-Arno
                                                North Apennines
                                                Po Valley

                                                Southwest Asia
                                                Defense of Saudi Arabia
                                                Liberation and Defense of Kuwait
                                                Cease-Fire

                                                War on Terrorism
                                                Global War on Terrorism

                        (Additional campaigns to be determined)

 

DECORATIONS

Presidential Unit Citation (Army), Streamer embroidered AL KUT AND AN NAJAF

Valorous Unit Award, Streamer embroidered IRAQ 1991

Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), Streamer embroidered SOUTHWEST ASIA 2005-2006

Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), Streamer embroidered IRAQ 2008-2009

Army Superior Unit Award, Streamer embroidered 1995-1996

BY ORDER OF THE SECRETARY OF THE ARMY: 

 

ROBERT J. DALESSANDRO
Director, Center of Military History


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