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==Lineage and honors== ===Division=== *Constituted 12 November 1917 in the [[Regular Army (United States)|Regular Army]] as Headquarters, 3d Division *Organized 21 November 1917 at [[Camp Greene]], North Carolina *Redesignated 1 August 1942 as Headquarters, 3d Infantry Division *Reorganized and redesignated 1 April 1960 as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 3d Infantry Division *Reorganized and redesignated 16 May 2004 as Headquarters and Tactical Command Posts, 3d Infantry Division *Reorganized and redesignated 16 November 2010 as Headquarters and Headquarters Battalion, 3d Infantry Division<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.history.army.mil/html/forcestruc/lineages/branches/div/003id.htm|title=Headquarters and Headquarters Battalion, 3d Infantry Division - Lineage and Honors |publisher=U.S. Army Center of Military History (CMH)|website=history.army.mil|access-date=19 June 2011|archive-date=16 May 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110516034033/http://www.history.army.mil/html/forcestruc/lineages/branches/div/003id.htm|url-status=dead}}</ref> ====Campaign participation credit==== {{Columns-list|colwidth=30em| ;World War I *[[First Battle of the Aisne|Aisne]] *[[Champagne-Marne]] *[[Aisne-Marne]] *[[Battle of Saint-Mihiel|Saint-Mihiel]] *[[Meuse-Argonne]] *[[Fourth Battle of Champagne|Champagne 1918]] ;World War II *[[Operation Torch|Algeria-French Morocco]] (with [[Arrowhead device|arrowhead]]) *[[Tunisia Campaign|Tunisia]] *[[Operation Husky|Sicily]] (with arrowhead) *[[Allied invasion of Italy|Naples-Foggia]] *[[Operation Shingle|Anzio]] (with arrowhead) *[[Battle of Monte Cassino|Rome-Arno]] *[[Operation Dragoon|Southern France]] (with arrowhead) *[[Battle of the Rhineland|Rhineland]] *[[Colmar Pocket|Ardennes-Alsace]] *[[Central Europe Campaign|Central Europe]] ;Korean War *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 ;1st Gulf War *Operation Desert Shield *Operation Desert Storm ;War on Terrorism *[[Liberation of Iraq]] *[[Iraqi Transitional Government|Transition of Iraq]] *[[Iraqi Interim Government|Iraqi Governance]] *National Resolution *[[Iraq troop surge of 2007|Iraqi Surge]] }} ====Decorations==== {| class="wikitable" style="float:left;" |- style="background:#efefef;" ! Ribbon ! Award ! Year ! Notes |- ||[[File:United States Army and U.S. Air Force Presidential Unit Citation ribbon.svg|50px|alt=Dark blue ribbon with a gold border]] ||[[Presidential Unit Citation (US)|Presidential Unit Citation]] (Army) ||1945 ||Streamer embroidered [[Colmar Pocket|COLMAR]] |- ||[[File:United States Army and U.S. Air Force Presidential Unit Citation ribbon.svg|50px|alt=Dark blue ribbon with a gold border]] ||[[Presidential Unit Citation (US)|Presidential Unit Citation]] (Army) ||2003 ||Streamer embroidered [[2003 invasion of Iraq|IRAQ 2003]] |- ||[[File:Meritorious Unit Commendation ribbon.svg|50px|alt=Red ribbon]] ||[[Meritorious Unit Commendation]] || 2007–2008 ||Streamer embroidered [[Iraq War troop surge of 2007|IRAQ 2007-2008]] |- ||[[File:Meritorious Unit Commendation ribbon.svg|50px|alt=Red ribbon]] ||[[Meritorious Unit Commendation]] || 2009–2010 ||Streamer embroidered [[IRAQ 2009-2010]] |- ||[[File:Meritorious Unit Commendation ribbon.svg|50px|alt=Red ribbon]] ||[[Meritorious Unit Commendation]] || 2012–2013 ||Streamer embroidered [[AFGHANISTAN 2012-2013]] |- |[[File:Croix de guerre 1914-1918 with palm.jpg|51x51px]] |[[French Croix de Guerre with Palm|French Croix de guerre with Palm]] |1918 |Streamer embroidered MEUSE-ARGONNE |- ||[[File:Croix de guerre 1939-1945 with palm (France) - ribbon bar.png|50px|alt=Red ribbon with vertical green stripes in the center and a palm leaf in the middle]] ||[[Croix de guerre 1939–1945 (France)|French Croix de guerre with Palm]] || 1945 || Streamer embroidered COLMAR |- |[[File:Fourragère CG.png|44x44px]] |French [[Fourragère]] in the colors of the Croix de guerre |1918 |Fourragère |- ||[[File:Fourragère CG.png|15px|Red and Green woven citation cord with brass tip]] ||French [[Fourragère]] in the colors of the Croix de guerre || 1945 || Fourragère |- ||[[File:Korean Presidential Unit Citation.png|50px|alt=White ribbon with vertical green and red stripes on its edges and a red and blue circle in the middle]] ||[[Presidential Unit Citation (Korea)]] || 1951 || Streamer embroidered UIJONGBU CORRIDOR |- ||[[File:Korean Presidential Unit Citation.png|50px|alt=White ribbon with vertical green and red stripes on its edges and a red and blue circle in the middle]] ||[[Presidential Unit Citation (Korea)]] || 1953 || Streamer embroidered [[Iron Triangle (Korea)|IRON TRIANGLE]] |- ||[[File:Chryssoun Aristion Andrias Streamer.png|50px|The streamer has five alternating stripes (3 blue and two white) with the inscription in yellow]] ||[[Cross of Valour (Greece)|Chryssoun Aristion Andrias]]<br />(Bravery Gold Medal of Greece) || 1950–1953 || Streamer embroidered [[Korean War|KOREA]] |} {{clear}} ===Division Artillery=== *Constituted 12 November 1917 in the Regular Army as Headquarters, 3rd Field Artillery Brigade, and assigned to the 3rd Division *Organized 26 November 1917 at [[Camp Stanley]], Texas *Disbanded 16 October 1939 at [[Fort Lewis (Washington)|Fort Lewis]], Washington *Reconstituted 1 October 1940 in the Regular Army as Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 3rd Division Artillery, and activated at Fort Lewis, Washington *Redesignated 1 July 1957 as Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 3rd Infantry Division Artillery<ref name="history.army.mil">{{cite web|url=http://www.history.army.mil/html/forcestruc/lineages/branches/div/003ida.htm|title=Headquarters and Headquarters Battery 3d Infantry Division Artillery|website=history.army.mil|access-date=19 June 2011|archive-date=16 May 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110516034058/http://www.history.army.mil/html/forcestruc/lineages/branches/div/003ida.htm|url-status=dead}}</ref> ====Campaign participation credit==== {{Columns-list|colwidth=30em| ;World War I *[[Champagne-Marne]] *[[Aisne-Marne]] *[[Battle of Saint-Mihiel|Saint-Mihiel]] *[[Meuse-Argonne]] *[[Fourth Battle of Champagne|Champagne 1918]] ;World War II *[[Operation Torch|Algeria-French Morocco]] (with [[Arrowhead device|arrowhead]]) *[[Tunisia Campaign|Tunisia]] *[[Operation Husky|Sicily]] (with [[Arrowhead device|arrowhead]]) *[[Allied invasion of Italy|Naples-Foggia]] *[[Operation Shingle|Anzio]] (with arrowhead) *[[Battle of Monte Cassino|Rome-Arno]] *[[Operation Dragoon|Southern France]] (with arrowhead) *[[Battle of the Rhineland|Rhineland]] *[[Colmar Pocket|Ardennes-Alsace]] *[[Central Europe Campaign|Central Europe]] ;Korean War *Chinese Communist Forces Intervention *First United Nations Counteroffensive *Chinese Communist Forces Spring Offensive *United Nations Summer-Fall Offensive *Second Korean Winter *Korea, Summer-Fall 1952 *Third Korean Winter *Korea, Summer 1953 }} ====Decorations==== <ref name="history.army.mil"/> {| class="wikitable" style="float:left;" |- style="background:#efefef;" ! Ribbon ! Award ! Year ! Notes |- ||[[File:United States Army and U.S. Air Force Presidential Unit Citation ribbon.svg|50px|alt=Dark blue ribbon with a gold border]] ||[[Presidential Unit Citation (US)|Presidential Unit Citation]] (Army) ||1945 ||Streamer embroidered [[Colmar Pocket|COLMAR]] |- ||[[File:Meritorious Unit Commendation ribbon.svg|50px|alt=Red ribbon]] ||[[Meritorious Unit Commendation]] || 2007–2008 ||Streamer embroidered [[Iraq War troop surge of 2007|IRAQ 2007-2008]] |- ||[[File:Croix de guerre 1939-1945 with palm (France) - ribbon bar.png|50px|alt=Red ribbon with vertical green stripes in the center and a palm leaf in the middle]] ||[[Croix de guerre 1939–1945 (France)|French Croix de guerre]] with Palm || 1945 || Streamer embroidered COLMAR |- ||[[File:Fourragère CG.png|15px|Red and Green woven citation cord with brass tip]] ||French [[Fourragère]] in the colors of the Croix de guerre || 1945 || Fourragère |- ||[[File:Korean Presidential Unit Citation.png|50px|alt=White ribbon with vertical green and red stripes on its edges and a red and blue circle in the middle]] ||[[Presidential Unit Citation (Korea)]] || 1951 || Streamer embroidered UIJONGBU CORRIDOR |- ||[[File:Korean Presidential Unit Citation.png|50px|alt=White ribbon with vertical green and red stripes on its edges and a red and blue circle in the middle]] ||[[Presidential Unit Citation (Korea)]] || 1953 || Streamer embroidered [[Iron Triangle (Korea)|IRON TRIANGLE]] |- ||[[File:Chryssoun Aristion Andrias Streamer.png|50px|The streamer has five alternating stripes (3 blue and two white) with the inscription in yellow]] ||[[Cross of Valour (Greece)|Chryssoun Aristion Andrias]]<br />(Bravery Gold Medal of Greece) || 1950–1953 || Streamer embroidered [[Korean War|KOREA]] |} {{clear}} ===Combat Aviation Brigade=== Constituted 16 March 1985 in the Regular Army as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, Aviation Brigade, 3rd Infantry Division, and activated in Germany.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.history.army.mil/html/forcestruc/lineages/branches/div/003idavbde.htm|title=Headquarters and Headquarters Company Aviation Brigade 3d Infantry Division|website=history.army.mil|access-date=19 June 2011|archive-date=15 April 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210415194457/https://history.army.mil/html/forcestruc/lineages/branches/div/003idavbde.htm|url-status=dead}}</ref> ====Campaign participation credit==== {{Columns-list|colwidth=30em| ; War on Terrorism ''Iraq'' *[[Liberation of Iraq]] *Iraqi Governance *National Resolution *[[Iraqi Surge]] ''Afghanistan'' *Consolidation II *Consolidation III *Transition I }} ====Decorations==== <ref>{{Cite web|url=https://history.army.mil/html/forcestruc/wotawards.html#2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091205175115/http://www.history.army.mil/html/forcestruc/wotawards.html#2008|url-status=dead|archive-date=5 December 2009|title=The War on Terrorism: Unit Award Orders & Citations|website=history.army.mil|accessdate=6 August 2023}}</ref> {| class="wikitable" style="float:left;" |- style="background:#efefef;" ! Ribbon ! Award ! Year ! Notes |- ||[[File:United States Army and U.S. Air Force Presidential Unit Citation ribbon.svg|50px|alt=Dark blue ribbon with a gold border]] ||[[Presidential Unit Citation (US)|Presidential Unit Citation]] (Army) ||2003 ||Streamer embroidered [[2003 invasion of Iraq|IRAQ 2003]] |- ||[[File:Meritorious Unit Commendation ribbon.svg|50px|alt=Red ribbon]] ||[[Meritorious Unit Commendation]] || 2005 ||Streamer embroidered [[Iraq War troop surge of 2007|IRAQ 2005]] |- ||[[File:Meritorious Unit Commendation ribbon.svg|50px|alt=Red ribbon]] ||[[Meritorious Unit Commendation]] || 2007–2008 ||Streamer embroidered [[Iraq War troop surge of 2007|IRAQ 2007-2008]] |- ||[[File:Meritorious Unit Commendation ribbon.svg|50px|alt=Red ribbon]] ||[[Meritorious Unit Commendation]] || 2009–2010 ||Streamer embroidered [[Iraq War troop surge of 2007|AFGHANISTAN 2009-2010]] |- ||[[File:Meritorious Unit Commendation ribbon.svg|50px|alt=Red ribbon]] ||[[Meritorious Unit Commendation]] || 2012–2013 ||Streamer embroidered [[Iraq War troop surge of 2007|AFGHANISTAN 2012-2013]] |- |} {{clear}} ===Division Band=== *Constituted 20 August 1943 in the Regular Army as the Band, 3rd Infantry Division *Redesignated 1 December 1943 as the 3d Infantry Division Band and activated in North Africa *Consolidated 20 March 1963 with Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment, 3rd Infantry Division Trains, and consolidated unit reorganized and redesignated as Headquarters, Headquarters and Band, 3rd Infantry Division Support Command. *Reorganized and redesignated 15 March 1968 as Headquarters, Headquarters Company and Band, 3rd Infantry Division Support Command. *Band element withdrawn 21 May 1972 from Headquarters, Headquarters Company and Band, 3rd Infantry Division Support Command, and absorbed by the 3d Adjutant General Company *Band element withdrawn 1 October 1984 from the 3d Adjutant General Company and redesignated as the 3rd Infantry Division Band.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.history.army.mil/html/forcestruc/lineages/branches/ag/band-003id.htm |title=3rd ID Band Lineage and Honors |publisher=history.army.mil |access-date=19 June 2011 |archive-date=23 May 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110523053502/http://www.history.army.mil/html/forcestruc/lineages/branches/ag/band-003id.htm |url-status=dead }}</ref> ====Campaign participation credit==== ; World War I *[[Aisne]] *[[Champagne-Marne]] *[[Aisne-Marne]] *[[Battle of Saint-Mihiel|Saint-Mihiel]] *[[Meuse-Argonne]] *[[Champagne 1918]] ; World War II – EAME *[[Algeria-French Morocco]] (with [[Arrowhead device|arrowhead]]) *[[Tunisia Campaign|Tunisia]] *[[Operation Husky|Sicily]] (with [[Arrowhead device|arrowhead]]) *[[Allied invasion of Italy|Naples-Foggia]] *[[Operation Shingle|Anzio]] (with arrowhead) *[[Battle of Monte Cassino|Rome-Arno]] *[[Operation Dragoon|Southern France]] (with [[Arrowhead device|arrowhead]]) *[[Battle of the Rhineland|Rhineland]] *[[Colmar Pocket|Ardennes-Alsace]] *[[Central Europe Campaign|Central Europe]] ; Korean War *Chinese Communist Forces Intervention *First United Nations Counteroffensive *Chinese Communist Forces Spring Offensive *United Nations Summer-Fall Offensive *Second Korean Winter *Korea, Summer-Fall 1952 *Third Korean Winter *Korea, Summer 1953 ; War on Terror *[[Liberation of Iraq]] *[[Transition of Iraq]] *[[Iraqi Governance]] *[[National Resolution]] *[[Iraqi Surge]] *[[Iraqi Sovereignty]] *[[Operation New Dawn (disambiguation)|New Dawn]] ====Decorations==== {| class="wikitable" style="float:left;" |- style="background:#efefef;" ! Ribbon ! Award ! Year ! Notes |- |[[File:United States Army and U.S. Air Force Presidential Unit Citation ribbon.svg|50px|alt=Dark blue ribbon with a gold border]] |[[Presidential Unit Citation (US)|Presidential Unit Citation]] (Army) |1945 |Streamer embroidered [[Colmar Pocket|COLMAR]] |- |[[File:United States Army and U.S. Air Force Presidential Unit Citation ribbon.svg|50px|alt=Dark blue ribbon with a gold border]] |[[Presidential Unit Citation (US)|Presidential Unit Citation]] (Army) |2003 |Streamer embroidered [[2003 invasion of Iraq|IRAQ 2003]] |- |[[File:Meritorious Unit Commendation ribbon.svg|50px|alt=Red ribbon]] |[[Meritorious Unit Commendation]] |1951–1952 |Streamer embroidered [[Korean War|KOREA]] 1951–1952 |- |[[File:Croix de guerre 1939-1945 with palm (France) - ribbon bar.png|50px|alt=Red ribbon with vertical green stripes in the center and a palm leaf in the middle]] |[[Croix de guerre 1939–1945 (France)|French Croix de guerre]] with Palm |1945 |Streamer embroidered COLMAR |- |[[File:Fourragère CG.png|15px|Red and green woven citation cord with brass tip]] |French [[Fourragère]] in the colors of the Croix de guerre |1945 |Fourragère |- |[[File:Korean Presidential Unit Citation.png|50px|alt=White ribbon with vertical green and red stripes on its edges and a red and blue circle in the middle]] |[[Republic of Korea Presidential Unit Citation]] |1951 |Streamer embroidered UIJONGBU CORRIDOR |- |[[File:Korean Presidential Unit Citation.png|50px|alt=White ribbon with vertical green and red stripes on its edges and a red and blue circle in the middle]] |Republic of Korea Presidential Unit Citation |1953 |Streamer embroidered [[Iron Triangle (Korea)|IRON TRIANGLE]] |- |[[File:Chryssoun Aristion Andrias Streamer.png|50px|The streamer has five alternating stripes (3 blue and two white) with the inscription in yellow]] |[[Cross of Valour (Greece)|Chryssoun Aristion Andrias]]<br />(Bravery Gold Medal of Greece) |1950–1953 |Streamer embroidered [[Korean War|KOREA]] |} {{clear}}
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