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Lineage and Honors Information as of 23 December 2010

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HEADQUARTERS AND HEADQUARTERS COMPANY
2d BRIGADE COMBAT TEAM, 2d INFANTRY DIVISION
(LANCER BRIGADE)

 

Organized in October 1920 in the Regular Army at Camp Travis, Texas, as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 4th Infantry Brigade, an element of the 2d Division

Redesignated 23 March 1925 as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 4th Brigade

Redesignated 24 August 1936 as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 4th Infantry Brigade

Disbanded 16 October 1939 at Fort Francis E. Warren, Wyoming

Reconstituted 25 January 1963 in the Regular Army as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 2d Brigade, 2d Infantry Division

Activated 15 February 1963 at Fort Benning, Georgia

Headquarters, 2d Brigade, 2d Infantry Division, reorganized and redesignated 16 November 2005 as Headquarters, 2d Brigade Combat Team, 2d Infantry Division (Headquarters Company, 2d Brigade, 2d Infantry Division concurrently reorganized and redesignated as Special Troops Battalion, 2d Brigade Combat Team, 2d Infantry Division)

Headquarters and Special Troops Battalion each inactivated 15 March 2008 at Fort Carson, Colorado

Headquarters activated 22 July 2010 at Fort Lewis, Washington (Special Troops Battalion, 2d Brigade Combat Team, 2d Infantry Division, concurrently redesignated as Headquarters Company, 2d Brigade Combat Team, 2d Infantry Division, and activated at Fort Lewis, Washington)

 

CAMPAIGN PARTICIPATION CREDIT

                                                            War on Terrorism
                                                            Campaigns to be determined

 

DECORATIONS

Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), Streamer embroidered IRAQ 2006-2008

Headquarters Company additionally entitled to:

Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), Streamer embroidered SOUTHWEST ASIA 2006-2008

 

BY ORDER OF THE SECRETARY OF THE ARMY:

 

 

PETER D. CREAN
COL, LG
Director, Center of Military History


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