125th MILITARY INTELLIGENCE BATTALION

COAT OF ARMS

Shield: Azure a pale argent overall between two mullets in fess a sword and a bayonet saltirewise or bearing a torteau charged with a heraldic rose of the third.

Crest: None approved.

Motto: EYES OF LIGHTNING

Symbolism: Oriental blue and silver gray are the military intelligence colors. The unsheathed weapons connote readiness and the heraldic rose alludes to the sub rosa mission of the organization. The stars symbolize the wartime service of elements of the unit and the color red indicates their decorations for action in World War II, Korea, and Vietnam

DISTINCTIVE UNIT INSIGNIA

The distinctive unit insignia is the shield and motto of the coat of arms.

LINEAGE RA (active)

• Constituted 16 June 1983 in the Regular Army as the 125th Military Intelligence Battalion, assigned to the 25th Infantry Division, and activated at Schofield Barracks, Hawai1 (372d Army Security Agency Company (see ANNEX 1) and 25th Military Intelligence Company (see ANNEX 2) concurrently reorganized and redesignated as Companies A and B).

ANNEX 1

• Constituted 11 May 1962 in the Regular Army as Company A, 303d Army Security Agency Battalion.
• Activated 25 June 1962 at Fort Carson, Colorado.
• Reorganized and redesignated 15 October 1966 as the 372d Army Security Agency Company. Cover Designation: 16th Radio Research Unit
• Inactivated 6 March 1971 in Vietnam.
• Activated 1 July 1974 at Helemano, Hawaii.

ANNEX 2

• Constituted 12 July 1944 in the Army of the United States as the 25th Counter Intelligence Corps Detachment.
• Activated 10 August 1944 in New Caledonia with personnel from provisional Counter Intelligence Corps detachment attached to the 25th Infantry Division.
• Inactivated 25 February 1946 in Japan.
• Activated 6 October 1950 in Korea.
• Allotted 8 February 1954 to the Regular Army
• Reorganized and redesignated 24 December 1958 as the 25th Military Intelligence Detachment.
• Reorganized and redesignated 26 December 1969 as the 25th Military Intelligence Company.
• Assigned 21 August 1978 to the 25th Infantry Division.

CAMPAIGN PARTICIPATION CREDIT

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

• Luzon

• UN Offensive
• CCF Intervention
• First UN Counteroffensive
• CCF Spring Offensive
• UN Summer-Fall Offensive
• Second Korean Winter
• Korea, Summer-Fall 1952
• Third Korean Winter
• Korea, Summer 1953

• 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

DECORATIONS

• Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), Streamer embroidered VIETNAM 1966 (16th Radio Research Unit cited; DA GO 17, 1968)
• Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), Streamer embroidered VIETNAM 1966-1967 (372d Radio Research Company cited; DA GO 17, 1968)
• Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), Streamer embroidered VIETNAM 1967-1968 (372d Radio Research Company cited; DA GO 28, 1969)
• Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), Streamer embroidered VIETNAM 1968-1969 (372d Radio Research Company cited; DA GO 51, 1971, and United States Army, Vietnam, GO 690, 25 February 1971, as amended by United States Army, Vietnam, GO 1405, 25 April 1971)
• Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), Streamer embroidered VIETNAM 1969-1970 (372d Radio Research Company cited; DA GO 43, 1972)
• Republic of Vietnam Cross of Gallantry with Palm, Streamer embroidered VIETNAM 1966-1968 (372d Radio Research Company cited; DA GO 48, 1971)
• Republic of Vietnam Cross of Gallantry with Palm, Streamer embroidered VIETNAM 1969-1970 (372d Radio Research Company cited; DA GO 5, 1973)
• Republic of Vietnam Cross of Gallantry with Palm, Streamer embroidered VIETNAM 1970-1971 (372d Radio Research Company cited; DA GO 6, 1974)
• Republic of Vietnam Civil Action Honor Medal, First Class, Streamer embroidered VIETNAM 1969-1971 (372d Radio Research Company cited; DA GO 6, 1974)

• Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), Streamer embroidered KOREA (25th Counter Intelligence Corps Detachment cited; DA GO 62, 1954)
• Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), Streamer embroidered VIETNAM 1966-1967 (25th Military Intelligence Detachment cited; DA GO 17, 1968)
• Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), Streamer embroidered VIETNAM 1967-1968 (25th Military Intelligence Detachment cited; DA GO 42, 1969)
• Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), Streamer embroidered VIETNAM 1968-1969 (25th Military Intelligence Detachment cited; DA GO 36, 1970)
• Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), Streamer embroidered VIETNAM 1969-1970 (25th Military Intelligence Company cited; DA GO 6, 1974)
• Philippine Presidential Unit Citation, Streamer embroi- dered 17 OCTOBER 1944 TO 4 JULY 1945 (2 5th Counter Intelligence Corps Detachment cited; DA GO 47, 1950)
• Republic of Vietnam Cross of Gallantry with Palm, Streamer embroidered VIETNAM 1966-1968 (25th Military Intelligence Detachment cited; DA GO 48, 1971)
• Republic of Vietnam Cross of Gallantry with Palm, Streamer embroidered VIETNAM 1968-1970 (25th Military Intelligence Detachment cited; DA GO 5, 1973)
• Republic of Vietnam Civil Action Honor Medal, First Class, Streamer embroidered VIETNAM 1966-1970 (25th Military Intelligence Detachment cited; DA GO 51, 1971)