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Lineage and Honors Information as of 15 September 2014

Headquarters,
2d Brigade Combat Team,
3d Infantry Division
(FORERUNNERS)

  • Constituted 12 November 1917 in the Regular Army as Headquarters, 5th Infantry Brigade, and assigned to the 3d Division
  • Organized in November 1917 at Camp Greene, North Carolina
  • Reorganized and redesignated in March 1921 as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 5th Infantry Brigade
  • Redesignated 23 March 1925 as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 5th Brigade
  • Redesignated 24 August 1936 as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 5th Infantry Brigade
  • Disbanded 16 October 1939 at Vancouver Barracks, Washington
  • Reconstituted 18 April 1963 in the Regular Army as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 2d Brigade, 3d Infantry Division
  • Activated 17 June 1963 in Germany
  • Inactivated 15 January 1994 in Germany
  • Activated 16 February 1996 at Fort Stewart, Georgia
  • Headquarters, 2d Brigade, 3d Infantry Division, reorganized and redesignated 16 March 2004 as Headquarters, 2d Brigade Combat Team, 3d Infantry Division (Headquarters Company, 2d Brigade, 3d Infantry Division – hereafter separate lineage)

CAMPAIGN PARTICIPATION CREDIT

  • World War I
  • Aisne
  • Champagne-Marne
  • Aisne-Marne
  • St. Mihiel
  • Meuse-Argonne
  • Champagne 1918
  • War on Terrorism
  • Iraq:
  • Iraqi Sovereignty
  • New Dawn
  • (Additional campaigns to be determined)

DECORATIONS

  • Presidential Unit Citation (Army), Streamer embroidered IRAQ 2003
  • Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), Streamer embroidered IRAQ 2005-2006
  • Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), Streamer embroidered IRAQ 2007-2008
  • Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), Streamer embroidered IRAQ 2009-2010

BY ORDER OF THE SECRETARY OF THE ARMY:

ROBERT J. DALESSANDRO
Director, Center of Military History


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