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Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 11th Psychological Operations Battalion(191 total words in this text)(1724 Reads)  11th Psychological Operations Battalion Lineage Constituted 7 November 1967 in the Regular Army as the 7th Psychological Operations Battalion Activated 1 December 1967 in Vietnam Inactivated 21 December 1971 at Fort Lewis, Washington Redesignated 30 October 1975 as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 7th Psychological Operations Battalion; concurrently withdrawn from the Regular Army, allotted to the Army Reserve, and activated at Washington, D.C. Inactivated 17 September 1990 at Washington, D.C. Redesignated 16 June 1996 as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 11th Psychological Operations Battalion, and activated at Washington, D.C. Headquarters and Headquarters Company 11th Psychological Operations Battalion Honors Campaign Participation Credit Vietnam: 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; Consolidation I; Consolidation II Decorations Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army) for VIETNAM 1967-1968 Navy Unit Commendation for VIETNAM 1967-1968 Republic of Vietnam Cross of Gallantry with Palm for VIETNAM 1971 Republic of Vietnam Civil Action Honor Medal, First Class for VIETNAM 1967-1970 |
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1865:
Confederate General Joseph Johnston officially surrenders his army to General William T. Sherman at Durham Station, North Carolina.
1865: John Wilkes Booth is killed when Union soldiers track him down to a Virginia farm 12 days after he assassinated President Abraham Lincoln. 1865: Joseph E. Johnston surrenders the Army of Tennessee to Sherman. 1937: The ancient Basque town of Guernica in northern Spain is bombed by German planes. 1952: Armistice negotiations are resumed. 1971: The U.S. command in Saigon announces that the U.S. force level in Vietnam is 281,400 men, the lowest since July 1966. 1972: President Nixon, despite the ongoing communist offensive, announces that another 20,000 U.S. troops will be withdrawn from Vietnam in May and June, reducing authorized troop strength to 49,000. |
