Headquarters and Headquarters Company
1st Brigade, 2d Infantry Division
Lineage and Honors Information as of 1 April 1997
Headquarters and Headquarters Company
1st Brigade, 2d Infantry Division Lineage
Constituted 21 September 1917 in the Regular Army as Headquarters Troop, 2d Division
Organized 8 October 1917 at Fort Ethan Allen, Vermont
Reorganized and redesignated 18 February 1921 as Headquarters and Military Police Company (less Military Police Platoon), 2d Division
Reorganized and redesignated 22 July 1942 as Headquarters Company, 2d Division
Redesignated 1 August 1942 as Headquarters Company, 2d Infantry Division
Disbanded 2 May 1960 at Fort Benning, Georgia
Reconstituted 25 January 1963 in the Regular Army as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 1st Brigade, 2d Infantry Division
Activated 16 April 1963 at Fort Benning, Georgia
Headquarters and Headquarters Company
1st Brigade, 2d Infantry Division Honors
Campaign Participation Credit
World War I: Aisne; Aisne-Marne; St. Mihiel; Meuse-Argonne; Ile de France 1918; Lorraine 1918
World War II: Normandy; Northern France; Rhineland; Ardennes-Alsace; Central Europe
Korean War: UN Defensive; UN Offensive; 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
Decorations
Presidential Unit Citation (Army) for HONGCHON
French Croix de Guerre with Palm, World War I for AISNE-MARNE
French Croix de Guerre with Palm, World War I for MEUSE-ARGONNE
French Croix de Guerre, World War I, 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 at ELSENBORN CREST
Republic of Korea Presidential Unit Citation for NAKTONG RIVER LINE
Republic of Korea Presidential Unit Citation for KOREA