1st Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division


The 1st Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division is an active Airborne Brigade of the United States Army.

Lineage and honors

Lineage

  • 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, 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
  • Withdrawn 15 November 1948 from the Organized Reserve Corps and allotted to the Regular Army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, 1st Brigade, 82d Airborne Division, reorganized and redesignated 16 June 2006 as Headquarters, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 82d Airborne Division

Campaign participation credit

  • World War I: St. Mihiel; Meuse-Argonne; Lorraine 1918
  • World War II: Sicily; Naples-Foggia; Normandy ; Rhineland ; Ardennes-Alsace; Central Europe
  • Armed Forces Expeditions: Dominican Republic; Panama
  • Southwest Asia: Defense of Saudi Arabia; Liberation and Defense of Kuwait
  • War on Terrorism: Campaigns to be determined
  • * Afghanistan: Consolidation I; Transition I
  • * Iraq: Transition of Iraq; Iraqi Surge; Iraqi Sovereignty

Decorations