Constituted 19 August 1965 in the Regular Army as the 7th Psychological Operations Group.[2] Activated 20 October 1965 on Okinawa.[2] Inactivated 30 June 1974 at Fort Bragg, North Carolina.[2] Redesignated 30 October 1975 as Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment, 7th Psychological Operations Group; concurrently withdrawn from the Regular Army, allotted to the Army Reserve, and activated at the Presidio of San Francisco, California.[2] Reorganized and redesignated 18 September 1990 as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 7th Psychological Operations Group.[2] Location changed 15 September 1994 to Moffett Field, California.[2]
Within the psychological operations battalions, there are a number of tactical psychological operations companies. Such companies are organized in the same manner as other Tactical Psychological Operations Companies Army wide. It consists of a Headquarters Section, a Tactical PSYOP Development Detachment or TPDD and three Tactical PSYOP Detachments or TPD. The TPDD focuses on Product Development and Target Audience Analysis while the TPD usually focuses on product distribution, face to face engagement with a given target audience and loudspeaker operations.
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Deployed to Bosnia in 2000, part of the Stabilization Force 7 (SFOR 7) peace-keeping mission in support of 3d ACR.
Deployed TPD 1270 (15 personnel) to Iraq in 2003, part of OIF 1 in support of 3d ACR and Al Anbar Province; received Valorous Unit Award. During this deployment TPD1270 team sergeant Mark Hadsell notoriously bragged to reporters about having supposedly used music in interrogations.[3][4]
Cross-leveled 11 personnel to 320th PSYOP Company to support their 2004 Afghanistan deployment.
Deployed TPD 1290 to Iraq in September 2004 in support of 1-25 Infantry Stryker Brigade operations in Mosul, Iraq during OIF 3. One member of the detachment was wounded and evacuated from Iraq during fighting in Tal Afar in early 2005. Received Valorous Unit Award.[5][6][7]
345th Tactical Psychological Operations Company (Airborne) – Lewisville, Texas
245th PSYOP Co. was constituted into the regular Army on December 20, 1965. The unit deployed to Vietnam in February, 1966. The 245th was assigned to the 6th BN, 7th PSYOP Group. 245th elements supported the 1 CAV DIV, 101st ABN DIV, and was awarded a Meritorious Unit Citation and Vietnam Cross of Gallantry with Palm Device. Inactivated in January 1968. The 245th was reconstituted on October 30, 1975 in the Army Reserve under the 90th ARCOM, 5th U.S. Army. In 1980, the 245th supported the Cuban Refugee Resettlement Project at Ft. McCoy, WI. The 245th was placed under USACAPOC and U.S. Army Special Operations Command in 1990. December 27, 1990, 18 soldiers mobilized to support Operation Desert Shield. Here the unit earned a Navy Meritorious Unit Commendation as well as a Meritorious Unit Commendation. September 16, 1994, a Tactical Detachment deployed to Haiti in support of Operation Uphold Democracy. Two soldiers supported a team of the 3rd Special Forces Group and the rest were with the 10th Mountain. In 1996, the 245th was redesignated the 345th Tactical PSYOP Co. (Airborne), 16th BN, 2nd PSYOP GRP. In 1998, the unit operated in Bosnia. The unit was primarily in the Multi-National Division North supporting the 3/2 Armored Cavalry Regiment. Other soldiers were in Sarajevo and Banja Luka. In 2000, a Tactical Detachment deployed to Kosovo to conduct missions, in support of Operation Joint Guardian. In 2002, three Tactical Detachments and a Headquarters/PDD deployed with the 3rd Special Forces Group's 1st BN to Afghanistan for Operation Enduring Freedom. From February to October 2004, the 345th was assigned responsibility for tactical PSYOP in Baghdad, Iraq supporting elements of the 1st Armored Division, 1st Cavalry Division, and 10th Mountain Division.
Deployed to Iraq in support of Operation Desert Storm in 1991 [under previous designation as the 245th PSYOP Company]
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U.S. Army Civil Affairs and Psychological Operations Command (USACAPOC)
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