Lineage And Honors Information
Lineage and Honors Information as of 15 June 2015
1st Battlefield Coordination Detachment
- Constituted 8 September 1958 in the Regular Army as the 18th Aviation Operating Detachment
- Activated 10 October 1958 at Fort Benning, Georgia
- Inactivated 20 August 1965 in Vietnam
- Redesignated 1 October 1985 as the 18th Aviation Detachment and activated at Fort Bragg, North Carolina
- Redesignated 12 May 1987 as the 1st Battlefield Coordination Detachment
Campaign Participation Credit
- Vietnam
- Advisory
- Defense
- Armed Forces Expeditions
- Panama
- Southwest Asia
- Defense of Saudi Arabia
- Liberation and Defense of Kuwait
- War on Terrorism
- Global War on Terrorism
- (Additional campaigns to be determined)
DECORATIONS
- Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), Streamer embroidered SOUTHWEST ASIA 2009-2010
BY ORDER OF THE SECRETARY OF THE ARMY:
RICHARD W. STEWART, PH.D.
Chief of Military History