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    1st Battalion, 82d Aviation

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    Constituted 15 November 1962 in the Regular Army as Company A, 82d Aviation Battalion, an element of the 82d Airborne Division

    Activated 7 December 1962 at Fort Bragg, North Carolina

    Reorganized and redesignated 15 January 1987 as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 1st Battalion, 82d Aviation, an element of the 82d Airborne Division (organic elements concurrently constituted and activated)

    (Company E constituted 16 June 1992 in the Army Reserve and activated at Fort Bragg, North Carolina; inactivated 15 April 1995 at Fort Bragg, North Carolina)

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    Vietnam: *Defense; *Counteroffensive; *Counteroffensive, Phase II

    Armed Forces Expeditions: *Grenada; *Panama

    Southwest Asia: *Defense of Saudi Arabia; *Liberation and Defense of Kuwait

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    *Presidential Unit Citation (Army) for DONG XOAI

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