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Lineage and Honors Information as of 9 March 2017

Headquarters and Headquarters Battalion
82d Airborne Division
(ALL AMERICAN)

  • Constituted 5 August 1917 in the National Army as Headquarters, 82d Division
  • Organized 25 August 1917 at Camp Gordon, Georgia
  • Demobilized 27 May 1919 at Camp Mills, New York
  • Reconstituted 24 June 1921 in the Organized Reserves as Headquarters, 82d Division
  • Organized 23 September 1921 at Columbia, South Carolina
  • Redesignated 13 February 1942 as Division Headquarters, 82d Division
  • Ordered into active military service 25 March 1942 and reorganized at Camp Claiborne, Louisiana
  • Reorganized and redesignated 15 August 1942 as Headquarters, 82d Airborne Division
  • (Organized Reserves redesignated 25 March 1948 as the Organized Reserve Corps)
  • Withdrawn 15 November 1948 from the Organized Reserve Corps and allotted to the Regular Army
  • Reorganized and redesignated 25 May 1964 as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 82d Airborne Division
  • Reorganized and redesignated 16 June 2006 as Headquarters and Tactical Command Posts, 82d Airborne Division
  • Reorganized and redesignated 16 October 2010 as Headquarters and Headquarters Battalion, 82d Airborne Division (organic elements of Headquarters Battalion concurrently constituted and activated)

Campaign Participation Credit

  • World War I
  • St. Mihiel
  • Meuse-Argonne
  • Lorraine 1918
  • World War II
  • Sicily
  • Naples-Foggia
  • Normandy (with arrowhead)
  • Rhineland (with arrowhead)
  • Ardennes-Alsace
  • Central Europe
  • Armed Forces Expeditions
  • Dominican Republic
  • Grenada
  • Panama (with arrowhead)
  • Southwest Asia
  • Defense of Saudi Arabia
  • Liberation and Defense of Kuwait
  • War on Terrorism
  • Afghanistan:
  • Consolidation I
  • Consolidation II
  • Campaigns to be determined

Decorations

  • Presidential Unit Citation (Army), Streamer embroidered STE. MERE EGLISE
  • Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), Streamer embroidered SOUTHWEST ASIA 1990-1991
  • Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), Streamer embroidered AFGHANISTAN 2011-2012
  • French Croix de Guerre with Palm, World War II, Streamer embroidered STE. MERE EGLISE
  • French Croix de Guerre with Palm, World War II, Streamer embroidered COTENTIN
  • French Croix de Guerre, World War II, 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 in Belgium and Germany
  • Military Order of William (Degree of the Knight of the Fourth Class), Streamer embroidered NIJMEGEN 1944
  • Netherlands Orange Lanyard

By Order of the Secretary of the Army:

CHARLES R. BOWERY, JR.
Chief of Military History


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