Special Troops Battalion,
1st Brigade Combat Team, 3d Infantry Division
Lineage and Honors Information as of 6 February 2009
Special Troops Battalion, 1st Brigade Combat Team,
3d Infantry Division Lineage
Constituted 12 November 1917 in the Regular Army as Headquarters Troop, 3d Division
Organized 28 November 1917 at Fort Bliss, Texas
Reorganized and redesignated 12 May 1921 as Headquarters and Military Police Company (less Military Police Platoon), 3d
Division
Reorganized and redesignated 6 July 1942 as Headquarters Company, 3d Division
Redesignated 1 August 1942 as Headquarters Company, 3d Infantry Division
Disbanded 1 April 1960 in Germany
Reconstituted 18 April 1963 in the Regular Army as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 1st Brigade, 3d Infantry Division
Activated 3 June 1963 in Germany
Headquarters Company, 1st Brigade, 3d Infantry Division, reorganized and redesignated 16 March 2004 as Special Troops
Battalion, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 3d Infantry Division (Headquarters, 1st Brigade, 3d Infantry Division � hereafter
separate lineage)
Special Troops Battalion, 1st Brigade Combat Team,
3d Infantry Division Honors
Campaign Participation Credit
World War I: Aisne; Champagne-Marne; Aisne-Marne; St. Mihiel; Meuse-Argonne; Champagne 1918
World War II: Algeria-French Morocco (with arrowhead); Tunisia; Sicily (with arrowhead); Naples-Foggia; Anzio (with arrowhead); Rome-Arno; Southern France (with arrowhead); Rhineland; Ardennes-Alsace; Central Europe
Korean War: 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
War on Terrorism: Campaigns to be determined
Decorations
Presidential Unit Citation (Army), Streamer embroidered COLMAR
Presidential Unit Citation (Army), Streamer embroidered IRAQ 2003
Army Superior Unit Award, Streamer embroidered 2001
French Croix de Guerre with Palm, World War II, Streamer embroidered COLMAR
French Croix de Guerre, World War II, Fourragere
Republic of Korea Presidential Unit Citation, Streamer embroidered UIJONGBU CORRIDOR
Republic of Korea Presidential Unit Citation, Streamer embroidered IRON TRIANGLE
Chryssoun Aristion Andrias (Bravery Gold Medal of Greece), Streamer embroidered KOREA