101st MILITARY INTELLIGENCE BATTALION
COAT OF ARMS
Shield: Checky azure and argent in front of a sword and lightning flash in saltire a double-warded key palewise argent, on a chief invected of the like a sunburst throughout tenne.
Crest: None approved.
Motto: TRUST VIGILANCE LOYALTY.
Symbolism: Oriental blue and silver gray are the colors traditionally associated with military intelligence. The invected chief is an allusion to clouds and the atmosphere, the main field of operations for a combat electronic warfare intelligence unit. The sunburst, a symbol of Helios, the Greek sun god, is a further reference to the atmosphere. The sunburst may also denote a compass rose and the multi-directional facets of the unit's radio functions. The checky background alludes to a chessboard and symbolizes strategy and intelligence. The sword refers to the unit's military ability, the lightning flash to speed and communications, and the key to intelligence and security.
DISTINCTIVE UNIT INSIGNIA
The distinctive unit insignia is the shield and motto of the coat of arms.
LINEAGE RA (active)
- Constituted 16 September 1980 in the Regular Army as the 101st Military Intelligence Battalion , assigned to the 1st Infantry Division, and activated at Fort Riley, Kansas (337th Army Security Agency Company [see ANNEX 1] and 1st Military Intelligence Company [seeANNEX 2] concurrently reorganized and redesignated as Companies A and B). Inactivated 15 November 1995 at Fort Riley, Kansas.
- Activated 16 February 1996 in Germany.
ANNEX 1
- Constituted 1 July 1952 in the Regular Army as the 337th Communication Reconnaissance Company . Activated 6 August 1952 at Fort Devens, Massachusetts.
- Reorganized and redesignated 16 May 1955 as Company B, 313th Communication Reconnaissance Battalion . Redesignated 1 July 1956 as Company B, 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 337th Army Security Agency Company .
ANNEX 2
- Constituted 12 July 1944 in the Army of the United States as the 1st Counter Intelligence Corps Detachment. Activated 16 August 1944 in France with personnel from provisional Counter intelligence Corps detachment attached to the 1st Infantry Division.
- Allotted 16 February 1951 to the Regular Army.
- Reorganized and redesignated 25 January 1958 as the 1st Military Intelligence Detachment.
- Reorganized and redesignated 26 December 1969 as the 1st Military intelligence Company.
- Reorganized and redesignated 15 April 1970 as the 1st Military Intelligence Detachment.
- Reorganized and redesignated 3 May 1971 as the 1st Military Intelligence Company.
- Assigned 21 July 1978 to the 1st Infantry Division.
CAMPAIGN PARTICIPATION CREDIT
Southwest Asia
- Defense of Saudi Arabia
- Liberation and Defense of Kuwait
- Cease-Fire
Company A additionally entitled to:
Vietnam
- Defense
- 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
Company B additionally entitled to:
World War II-EAME
- Tunisia
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Sicily
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Normandy (with arrowhead)
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Northern France
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Rhineland
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Ardennes-Alsace
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Central Europe
Vietnam
- Defense
-
Counteroffensive
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Counteroffensive, Phase II
-
Counteroffensive, Phase III
-
Tet Counteroffensive
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Counteroffensive, Phase IV
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Counteroffensive, Phase V
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Counteroffensive, Phase VI
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Tet 69/Counteroffensive
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Summer-Fall 1969
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Winter-Spring 1970
DECORATIONS
Company A entitled to:
- Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), Streamer
embroidered VIETNAM 1965-1966 (11th Radio
Research Unit cited; DA GO 17, 1968)
- Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), Streamer
embroidered VIETNAM 1966-1967 (337th Radio
Research Company cited; DA GO 17, 1968)
- Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), Streamer
embroidered VIETNAM 1967-1968 (337th Radio
Research Company cited; DA GO 28, 1969)
- Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), Streamer
embroidered VIETNAM 1968-1969 (337th Radio
Research Company cited; DA GO 51, 1971)
- Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), Streamer
embroidered VIETNAM 1969-1970 (337th Radio
Research Company cited; DA GO 43, 1972)
- Republic of Vietnam Cross of Gallantry with Palm,
Streamer embroidered VIETNAM 1965-1968 (337th
Radio Research Company cited; DA GO 21, 1969, as
amended by DA GO 59, 1969)
- Republic of Vietnam Civil Action Honor Medal, First
Class, Streamer embroidered VIETNAM 1969-1970
(337th Radio Research Company cited; DA GO 6,
1974)
Company B entitled to:
- Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), Streamer
embroidered VIETNAM 1966 (1st Military Intelligence Detachment cited; DA GO 17, 1968)
- Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), Streamer
embroidered VIETNAM 1968 (1st Military Intelligence Detachment cited; DA GO 7, 1970)
- French Croix de Guerre with Palm, World War II,
Streamer embroidered
- KASSERINE (1st Infantry Division cited; DA GO 43,
1950)
- French Croix de Guerre with Palm, World War II,
- Streamer embroidered NORMANDY (1st Infantry
Division cited; DA GO 43, 1950)
- French Croix de Guerre, World War II, Fourragere
(1st Infantry Division cited; DA GO 43,1950)
- Belgian Fourragere 1940 (1st Counter Intelligence Corps Detachment cited; DA GO 43, 1950)
- Cited in the Order of the Day of the Belgian Army for
action at Mons (1st Counter Intelligence Corps Detachment cited; DA GO 43, 1950)
- Cited in the Order of the Day of the Belgian Army for
action at EupenMalmedy (1st Counter Intelligence
Corps Detachment cited; DA GO 43, 1950)
- Republic of Vietnam Cross of Gallantry with Palm,
Streamer embroidered VIETNAM 1965-1968 (1st
Military Intelligence Detachment cited; DA GO 21,
1969)
- Republic of Vietnam Civil Action Honor Medal, First
Class, Streamer embroidered VIETNAM 1965-1970
(1st Military Intelligence Detachment cited; DA GO
53, 1970)