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3rd Psychological Operations Battalion (Airborne) (Dissemination)

The 3rd Psychological Operations Battalion (Airborne) is responsible for all radio, television and print assets for developing psychological operations products, such as leaflets, posters, handbills, newspapers, radio and television broadcasts. The 3rd Psychological Operations Battalion is a subordinate unit of the 4th Psychological Operations Group.

The 3rd Psychological Operations Battalion serves as the Psychological Operations Dissemination Battalion (PDB) for the 4th Psychological Operations Group (Airborne), providing, while deployed, media expertise. It is a functionally-oriented dissemination battalion whose 3 major companies possess the 4th Psychological Operations Group's organic print, radio and television broadcast, and audio-visual production and communication capabilities.

The 3rd Psychological Operations Battalion is capable of deploying these capabilities or they can be produced by the Battalion at Fort Bragg, North Carolina and shipped to the forward deployed psychological operations detachment in theater. If local host nation support agreements are in place, psychological operations personnel can print on foreign presses and broadcast from existing stations in theater. The Battalion was made up of a Headquarters and Headquarters Company, a Print Company, a Broadcast Company, and a Distribution Company.

The 3rd Psychological Operations Battalion (Airborne) (Dissemination) was first constituted on 20 April 1995 in the Regular Army as the 3d Psychological Operations Battalion. It was activated on 16 November 1995 at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, with personnel from the Psychological Operations Dissemination Battalion (Provisional), which was first organized on 11 July 1990 at Fort Bragg, North Carolina. That unit had participated in Operation Desert Shield and Operation Desert Storm. As a result, the 3rd Psychological Operations Battalion (Airborne) (Dissemination) was authorized campaign streamers for the Defense of Saudi Arabia and Liberation and Defense of Kuwait.