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The most difficult thing about planning against the Americans, is that they do not read their own doctrine, and they would feel no particular obligtion to follow it if they did.

-- Admiral Sergei I. Gorshkov

Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment, 205th Military Intelligence Brigade

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Constituted 12 July 1944 in the Army of the United States as the 205th Counter Intelligence Corps Detachment

Activated 6 August 1944 in France

Allotted 6 October 1950 to the Regular Army

Reorganized and redesignated 25 June 1958 as the 205th Military Intelligence Detachment

Consolidated 16 October 1983 with the 135th Military Intelligence Group (see ANNEX) and consolidated unit reorganized and redesignated as Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment, 205th Military Intelligence Group

Reorganized and redesignated 16 October 1985 as Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment, 205th Military Intelligence Brigade

ANNEX

Constituted 19 March 1966 in the Regular Army as the 135th Intelligence Corps Group

Activated 1 June 1966 at Fort Bragg, North Carolina

Redesignated 15 October 1966 as the 135th Military Intelligence Group

Inactivated 25 September 1969 in Vietnam

Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment
205th Military Intelligence Brigade Honors

Campaign Participation Credit

World War II: Northern France; Rhineland; Ardennes-Alsace; Central Europe

Vietnam: Counteroffensive, Phase II; Counteroffensive, Phase III; Tet Counteroffensive; Counteroffensive, Phase IV; Counteroffensive, Phase V; Counteroffensive, Phase VI; Tet 69/Counteroffensive; Summer-Fall 1969

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Army Superior Unit Award for 1995-1996

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