The 1-320th deployed to Dominican Republic in 1965 during Operation Power Pack, and to Grenada in 1983 during Operation Urgent Fury with the 82nd Airborne Division. The battalion participated in Operations Desert Shield and Storm in 1990-1, and has deployed six times during the Global War on Terror: to Iraq from 2003-4, 2005-6, and 2007-8; and to Afghanistan from 2010–11, in 2012, and in 2014.