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- Withdrawn 15 November 1948 from the Organized Reserve Corps and allotted to the Regular Army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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