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Lineage and Honors Information as of 20 March 2012

222d AVIATION REGIMENT

  • Constituted 25 April 1966 in the Regular Army as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 222d Aviation Battalion
  • Activated 25 May 1966 in Vietnam
  • Inactivated 15 April 1986 at Fort Wainwright, Alaska
  • Assigned 20 September 1986 to the 101st Airborne Division and activated at Fort Campbell, Kentucky (organic elements concurrently constituted and activated)
  • Battalion reorganized and redesignated 17 October 1987 as the 222d Aviation, a parent regiment under the United States Army Regimental System; concurrently relieved from assignment to the 101st Airborne Division and transferred to the United States Army Training and Doctrine Command
  • Redesignated 1 October 2005 as the 222d Aviation Regiment

Campaign Participation Credit

  • Vietnam
  • Counteroffensive
  • Counteroffensive, Phase II
  • Counteroffensive, Phase III
  • Tet Counteroffensive
  • Counteroffensive, Phase IV
  • Counteroffensive, Phase V
  • Counteroffensive, Phase VI
  • Tet 69/Counteroffensive
  • Summer-Fall 1969
  • Winter-Spring 1970
  • Sanctuary Counteroffensive
  • Counteroffensive, Phase VII
  • Consolidation I
  • Consolidation II

Decorations

  • Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), Streamer embroidered VIETNAM 1967
  • Republic of Vietnam Cross of Gallantry with Palm, Streamer embroidered VIETNAM 1966-1967
  • Republic of Vietnam Cross of Gallantry with Palm, Streamer embroidered VIETNAM 1967-1968
  • Republic of Vietnam Cross of Gallantry with Palm, Streamer embroidered VIETNAM 1969-1970
  • Republic of Vietnam Cross of Gallantry with Palm, Streamer embroidered VIETNAM 1970-1972
  • Republic of Vietnam Civil Action Honor Medal, First Class, Streamer embroidered VIETNAM 1969-1970

By Order of the Secretary of the Army:

Robert J. Dalessandro
Director, Center of Military History


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