Lineage and Honors Information as of 20 November 2012
SPECIAL TROOPS BATTALION
1st BRIGADE COMBAT TEAM,
2d INFANTRY DIVISION
- Constituted 21 September 1917 in the Regular Army as Headquarters Troop, 2d Division
- Organized 8 October 1917 at Fort Ethan Allen, Vermont
- Reorganized and redesignated 18 February 1921 as Headquarters and Military Police Company (less Military Police Platoon), 2d Division
- Reorganized and redesignated 22 July 1942 as Headquarters Company, 2d Division
- Redesignated 1 August 1942 as Headquarters Company, 2d Infantry Division
- Disbanded 2 May 1960 at Fort Benning, Georgia
- Reconstituted 25 January 1963 in the Regular Army as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 1st Brigade, 2d Infantry Division
- Activated 16 April 1963 at Fort Benning, Georgia
- Headquarters Company, 1st Brigade, 2d Infantry Division, reorganized and redesignated 16 June 2005 as Special Troops Battalion, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 2d Infantry Division (Headquarters, 1st Brigade, 2d Infantry Division – hereafter separate lineage)
Campaign Participation Credit
- World War I
- Aisne
- Aisne-Marne
- St. Mihiel
- Meuse-Argonne
- Ile de France 1918
- Lorraine 1918
- World War II
- Normandy
- Northern France
- Rhineland
- Ardennes-Alsace
- Central Europe
- Korean War
- UN Defensive
- UN Offensive
- CCF Intervention
- First UN Counteroffensive
- CCF Spring Offensive
- UN Summer-Fall Offensive
- Second Korean Winter
- Korea, Summer-Fall 1952
- Third Korean Winter
- Korea, Summer 1953
Decorations
- Presidential Unit Citation (Army), Streamer embroidered HONGCHON
- French Croix de Guerre with Palm, World War I, Streamer embroidered AISNE-MARNE
- French Croix de Guerre with Palm, World War I, Streamer embroidered MEUSE-ARGONNE
- French Croix de Guerre, World War I, 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 at Elsenborn Crest
- Republic of Korea Presidential Unit Citation, Streamer embroidered NAKTONG RIVER LINE
- Republic of Korea Presidential Unit Citation, Streamer embroidered KOREA
By Order of the Secretary of the Army:
Robert J. Dalessandro
Director, Center of Military History
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