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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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