Lineages and Honors Information
Psychological Operations

Lineage and Honors Information as of 21 December 2017

Headquarters and Service Company
15th Psychological Operations Battalion

  • Constituted 29 October 1965 in the Regular Army as the 15th Psychological Operations Battalion
  • Activated 20 December 1965 at Fort Bragg, North Carolina
  • Inactivated 13 September 1972 at Fort Bragg, North Carolina
  • Redesignated 30 October 1975 as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 15th Psychological Operations Battalion; concurrently withdrawn from the Regular Army, allotted to the Army Reserve, and activated at Fort Thomas, Kentucky
  • Location changed 31 August 2000 to Cincinnati, Ohio
  • Reorganized and redesignated 16 June 1997 as Headquarters and Service Company, 15th Psychological Operations Battalion
  • Ordered into active military service 10 September 2008 at Cincinnati, Ohio; released from active military service 14 October 2009 and reverted to reserve status
  • (Additional elements ordered into active military service for the War on Terrorism)

Campaign Participation Credit

  • War on Terrorism
  • National Resolution
  • Iraqi Surge

Decorations

None

By Order of the Secretary of the Army:

CHARLES R. BOWERY, JR.
Chief of Military History


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