Special Troops Battalion , 1st Brigade Combat Team , 10th Mountain Division ( United States ) The 1st Brigade Combat Team , 10th Mountain Division Special Troops Battalion is a special troops battalion of the United States Army headquartered at Fort Drum , New York . It is the organization for the command elements of the 1st Brigade Combat Team , 10th Mountain Division . The battalion contains the division ' s senior command structure , including its Headquarters and Headquarters Company , as well as communication and support elements . Tracing its lineage back to the mountain warfare training command activated during World War II , the battalion received credit for participation in two World War II campaigns . Formally activated in 2004 , it has since seen two deployments supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom in support of the 1st Brigade Combat Team . Organization . The 1st Special Troops Battalion is subordinate to the 1st Brigade Combat Team , 10th Mountain Division , and is a permanent formation of the brigade , as the 1st Brigade Combat Team ' s command elements are all contained in the STB . The battalion consists of four companies ; the brigade ' s Headquarters and Headquarters Company , as well as A Company , a Combat Engineer company ; B Company , a Military Intelligence company ; C Company , a Signal company ; and a generic Military Police platoon . These companies provide services for the other battalions of the 1st Brigade Combat Team . As such , all of the formations are mountain warfare qualified . History . Special Troops Battalion , 1st Brigade , 10th Mountain Division traces its lineage back to the 10th Mountain Division ' s original Headquarters element , which was constituted with the rest of the division in World War II . It was activated 17 September 1942 as the 10th Mountain Training Center . After the training of the Division ' s soldiers was complete , the Training Center became the division headquarters . The division headquarters then fought through the Italian campaign , earning two campaign streamers during its service . Upon the return of the division headquarters and 1st Brigade , the 10th Mountain Division began the process of transformation into a modular division . On 16 September 2004 , the division headquarters finished its transformation . The 1st Brigade became the 1st Brigade Combat Team , while the 3rd Brigade Combat Team , 10th Mountain Division was activated for the first time . In January 2005 , the 4th Brigade Combat Team , 10th Mountain Division was activated at Fort Polk , Louisiana . 2nd Brigade Combat Team would not be transformed until September 2005 , pending a deployment to Iraq . In late 2004 , 2nd Brigade Combat Team was deployed to Iraq supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom . The 2nd Brigade Combat Team undertook combat operations in western Baghdad , returning to the US in late 2005 . Around that time , the 1st Brigade Combat Team deployed back to Iraq , staying in the country until 2006 . The 1st Brigade Combat Team and the 2nd Brigade Combat Team are scheduled to deploy to Iraq in the fall of 2009 , as a part of the 2009 – 2010 rotation to Iraq . The Army is currently expanding housing at Fort Drum , hoping to relocate the home base of the 4th Brigade Combat Team from Fort Polk to Fort Drum before 2013 . Honors . The Special Troops Battalion , 1st Brigade , 10th Mountain Division was awarded two campaign streamers in World War II and two campaign streamers in the War on Terrorism for a total of four campaign streamers and two unit decorations in its operational history . Note that some of the brigade ' s battalions received more or fewer decorations depending on their individual deployments .