313th MILITARY INTELLIGENCE BATTALION

(Snow Owl)

COAT OF ARMS

Shield: Azure, a fess checky argent and tenne, overall a mullet of six points of the second.

Crest: On a wreath of the colors, argent and azure, a dragon passant gules garnished or in front of a mount vert impaled with twelve bamboo spikes proper, the dragon's tail interlaced with the spikes.

Motto: SAVOIR C'EST POUVOIR (KNOWLEDGE IS POWER).

Symbolism: Oriental blue and silver gray (white) allude to military intelligence. The colors orange and white refer to the organization's former affiliation with the Signal Corps, and the points of the mullet allude to the unit's decorations for World War II and Vietnam. The dragon, symbolic of alertness and readiness, denotes the unit's service as an Army Security Agency battalion in Vietnam. The mount refers to the lush terrain of that country and the spikes to the number of campaigns in which the unit participated.

DISTINCTIVE UNIT INSIGNIA

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

LINEAGE RA (active)

• 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 15 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 195,$ as the 8?d Military Intelligence Detachment.
• Reorganized and redesignated 11 November 19 70 as the 8? d Military Intelligence Company.
• Assigned 21 June 1978 to the 82d Airborne Division.

CAMPAIGN PARTICIPATION CREDIT

• Normandy (with arrowhead)
• Northern France
• Rhineland
• Ardennes-Alsace
• Central Europe

• 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

• Defense of Saudi Arabia
• Liberation and Defense of Kuwait

• Luzon

• Panama (with arrowhead)

DECORATIONS

• Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), Streamer embroidered FRANCE 1944 (215th Signal Depot Company cited; GO 10, First Army, 17 January 1945)
• Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), Streamer embroidered VIETNAM 1966-1967 (313th Radio Research Battalion cited; DA GO 17, 1968)
• Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), Streamer embroidered VIETNAM 1967-1968 (Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 313th Radio Research Battalion cited; DA GO 28, 1969)
• Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), Streamer embroidered VIETNAM 1968-1969 (Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 313th Radio Research Battalion cited; DA GO 51, 1971)
• Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), Streamer embroidered VIETNAM 1969-1970 (313th Radio Research Battalion cited; DA GO 43, 1972)
• Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), Streamer embroidered VIETNAM 1971 (313th Radio Research Battalion cited; DA GO 32, 1973)
• Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), Streamer embroidered SOUTHWEST ASIA (313th Military Intelligence Battalion cited; DA GO 27, 1994)
• French Croix de Guerre with Palm, World War II, Streamer embroidered NORMANDY BEACHES (Detachments, 215th Signal Depot Company, cited; DA GO 43,1950)
• Republic of Vietnam Cross of Gallantry with Palm, Streamer embroidered VIETNAM 1970-1971 (313th Radio Research Battalion cited; DA GO 6, 1974)

• Philippine Presidential Unit Citation, Streamer embroidered 17 OCTOBER 1944 TO 4 JULY 1945 (3191st Signal Service Company cited; DA GO 47, 1950)

• Military Order of William (Degree of the Knight of the Fourth Class), Streamer embroidered NIJMEGEN (82d Airborne Division cited; DA GO 43, 1950)
• Netherlands Orange Lanyard (82d Airborne Division cited; DA GO 43, 1950)
• Belgian Fourragere 1940 (82d Airborne Division cited; DA GO 43, 1950)
• Cited in the Order of the Day of the Belgian Army for action in the Ardennes (82d Airborne Division cited; DA GO 43, 1950)
• Cited in the Order of the Day of the Belgian Army for action in Belgium and Germany (82d Airborne Division cited; DA GO 43, 1950)
• Republic of Vietnam Civil Action Honor Medal, First Class, Streamer embroidered VIETNAM 1968 (82d Military Intelligence Detachment cited; DA GO 48, 1971)