Lineage And Honors Information
Lineage and Honors Information as of 17 April 2014
HEADQUARTERS AND HEADQUARTERS COMPANY
1st BRIGADE COMBAT TEAM, 1st ARMORED DIVISION
(FORERUNNERS)
- Organized 1 January 1942 in the Regular Army at Fort Knox, Kentucky, as Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment, Combat Command A, 1st Armored Division
- Reorganized and redesignated 20 July 1944 as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, Combat Command A, 1st Armored Division
- Converted and redesignated 1 May 1946 as Headquarters and Headquarters Troop, 3d Constabulary Regiment, and relieved from assignment to the 1st Armored Division
- Inactivated 20 September 1947 in Germany
- Converted and redesignated 27 February 1951 as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, Combat Command A, 1st Armored Division
- Activated 7 March 1951 at Fort Hood, Texas
- Reorganized and redesignated 3 February 1962 as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 1st Brigade, 1st Armored Division
- Headquarters, 1st Brigade, 1st Armored Division, reorganized and redesignated 16 September 2008 as Headquarters, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 1st Armored Division (Headquarters Company, 1st Brigade, 1st Armored Division, concurrently reorganized and redesignated as Special Troops Battalion, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 1st Armored Division)
- Headquarters, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 1st Armored Division, consolidated 16 January 2011 with Special Troops Battalion, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 1st Armored Division, and consolidated unit concurrently reorganized and redesignated as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 1st Armored Division
Campaign Participation Credit
- World War II
- Tunisia
- Naples-Foggia
- Anzio
- Rome-Arno
- North Apennines
- Po Valley
- War on Terrorism
- Campaigns to be determined
Decorations
- Presidential Unit Citation (Army), Streamer embroidered IRAQ 2004
- Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), Streamer embroidered IRAQ 2009-2010
- Navy Unit Commendation, Streamer embroidered ANBAR PROVINCE 2006-2007
- Army Superior Unit Award, Streamer embroidered 1995-1996
- Headquarters Company additionally entitled to:
- Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), Streamer embroidered IRAQ NOV 2009-NOV 2010
By Order of the Secretary of the Army:
Robert J. Dalessandro
Director, Center of Military History