Constituted 5 August 1917 in the National Army as Headquarters Troop, 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 Company, 82d Division

        Organized in January 1922 at Columbia, South Carolina

        Reorganized and redesignated 13 February 1942 as Headquarters and Military Police Company (less Military Police Platoon), 82d Division

        Ordered into active military service 25 March 1942 and reorganized at Camp Claiborne, Louisiana

        Reorganized and redesignated 15 August 1942 as Headquarters Company, 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        Withdrawn 15 November 1948 from the Organized Reserve Corps and allotted to the Regular Army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 1 September 1957 as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, Command and Control Battalion, 82d Airborne Division

        Reorganized and redesignated 25 May 1964 as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 1st Brigade, 82d Airborne Division

        Headquarters Company, 1st Brigade, 82d Airborne Division, reorganized and redesignated 16 June 2006 as Special Troops Battalion, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 82d Airborne Division (Headquarters, 1st Brigade, 82d Airborne Division – hereafter separate lineage)
 
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
                                                        Panama (with arrowhead)

                                                        Southwest Asia
                                                        Defense of Saudi Arabia
                                                        Liberation and Defense of Kuwait
                       
                                                        War on Terrorism
                                                        Campaigns to be determined

DECORATIONS

        Presidential Unit Citation (Army), Streamer embroidered STE. MERE EGLISE

        Valorous Unit Award, Streamer embroidered AFGHANISTAN 2003

        Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), Streamer embroidered SOUTHWEST ASIA 1990-1991

        Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), Steamer embroidered IRAQ 2010

        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: