DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY

Lineage and Honors

313th Communications Reconnaissance Battalion

313th Army Security Agency Battalion

313th Radio Research Battalion

313th Military Intelligence Battalion

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Constituted 11 May 1942 in the Army of the United States as the 215th Signal Depot Company

Activated 25 September 1942 at Camp Livingston, Louisiana

Inactivated 18 November 1945 at Camp Kilmer, New Jersey

Converted and redesignated 21 April 1955 as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 313th Communication Reconnaissance Battalion, and allotted to the Regular Army

Activated 16 May 1955 at Fort Bragg, North Carolina (358th Communication Reconnaissance Company [see ANNEX 1] and 337th Communication Reconnaissance Company [activated 6 August 1952] concurrently reorganized and redesignated as Companies A and B)

Redesignated 1 July 1956 as the 313th Army Security Agency Battalion

Inactivated 18 December 1957 at Fort Bragg, North Carolina

Activated 25 May 1962 at Fort Bragg, North Carolina

(Company A reorganized and redesignated 15 October 1966 as the 358th Army Security Agency Company [see ANNEX 1]; Companies B and C concurrently reorganized and redesignated as the 337th and 371st Army Security Agency Companies - hereafter separate lineages)

Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 313th Army Security Agency Battalion, reorganized and redesignated 16 October 1979 as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 313th Military Intelligence Battalion, and assigned to the 82d Airborne Division (358th Army Security Agency Company [see ANNEX 1] and 82d Military Intelligence Company [see ANNEX 2] concurrently reorganized and redesignated as Companies A and B)

ANNEX 1

Constituted 10 June 1944 in the Army of the United States as the 3191st Signal Service Company

Activated 20 June 1944 at Camp Crowder, Missouri

Inactivated 25 October 1945 in the Philippine Islands

Converted and redesignated 25 April 1951 as the 358th Communication Reconnaissance Company and allotted to the Regular Army

Activated 15 May 1951 at Fort Devens, Massachusetts

Reorganized and redesignated 16 May 1955 as Company A, 313th Communication Reconnaissance Battalion

Redesignated 1 July 1956 as Company A, 313th Army Security Agency Battalion

Inactivated 18 December 1957 at Fort Bragg, North Carolina

Activated 25 May 1962 at Fort Bragg, North Carolina

Reorganized and redesignated 15 October 1966 as the 358th Army Security Agency Company

ANNEX 2

Constituted 12 July 1944 in the Army of the United States as the 82d Counter Intelligence Corps Detachment

Activated 20 August 1944 in England with personnel from provisional Counter Intelligence Corps detachment attached to the 82d Airborne Division

Allotted 3 February 1949 to the Regular Army

Reorganized and redesignated 25 January 1958 as the 82d Military Intelligence Detachment

Reorganized and redesignated 11 November 1970 as the 82d Military Intelligence Company

Assigned 21 June 1978 to the 82d Airborne Division

CAMPAIGN PARTICIPATION CREDIT

World War II
Normandy (with arrowhead)
Northern France
Rhineland
Ardennes-Alsace
Central Europe

Vietnam
Counteroffensive
Counteroffensive, Phase II
Counteroffensive, Phase III
Tet Counteroffensive
Counteroffensive, Phase IV
Counteroffensive, Phase V
Counteroffensive, Phase VI
Tet 69/Counteroffensive
Summer-Fall 1969
Winter-Spring 1970
Sanctuary Counteroffensive
Counteroffensive, Phase VII

Armed Forces Expeditions
Dominican Republic
Grenada

Southwest Asia
Defense of Saudi Arabia
Liberation and Defense of Kuwait

Company A additionally entitled to:

World War II - AP
Luzon

Armed Forces Expeditions
Panama (with arrowhead)

DECORATIONS

Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), Streamer embroidered FRANCE 1944

Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), Streamer embroidered VIETNAM 1966-1967

Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), Streamer embroidered VIETNAM 1967-1968

Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), Streamer embroidered VIETNAM 1968-1969

Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), Streamer embroidered VIETNAM 1969-1970

Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), Streamer embroidered VIETNAM 1971

Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), Streamer embroidered SOUTHWEST ASIA

French Croix de Guerre with Palm, World War II, Streamer embroidered NORMANDY BEACHES

Republic of Vietnam Cross of Gallantry with Palm, Streamer embroidered VIETNAM 1970-1971

Company A additionally entitled to:

Philippine Presidential Unit Citation, Streamer embroidered 17 OCTOBER 1944 TO 4 JULY 1945

Company B additionally entitled to:

Military Order of William (Degree of the Knight of the Fourth Class), Streamer embroidered NIJMEGEN

Netherlands Orange Lanyard

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

Republic of Vietnam Civil Action Honor Medal, First Class, Streamer embroidered VIETNAM 1968


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