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6th Psychological Operations Battalion (Airborne)

The 6th Psychological Operations Battalion (Airborne) is tasked with the dissemination of propaganda by radio broadcast and prepared leaflets. The 6th Psychological Operations Battalion is a subordinate unit of the 4th Psychological Operations Group (Airborne). The 6th had regional responsibility over the area covered by US European Command (EUCOM), including Africa, excepting the Horn of Africa. With the separation of EUCOM's African area of responsibility, which became part of US Africa Command (AFRICOM), the 6th Psychological Operations Battalion became regionally focused toward Africa. 9th Psychological Operations Battalion was refocused to the EUCOM area of responsibility.

The 6th Psychological Operations Battalion (Airborne) was first constituted on 20 October 1965 in the Regular Army as the 6th Psychological Operations Battalion and activated on 1 November 1965 in Vietnam. It was inactivated there on 30 June 1971. The Battalion participated in 12 campaigns of the conflict in Vietnam: Counteroffensive, Counteroffensive Phase II, Counteroffensive Phase III, Tet Counteroffensive, Counteroffensive Phase IV, Counteroffensive Phase V, Counteroffensive Phase VI, Tet 69/Counteroffensive, Summer-Fall 1969, Winter-Spring 1970, Sanctuary Counteroffensive, and Counteroffensive Phase VII.

While inactive, the unit was reorganized and redesignated on 16 March 1990 as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 6th Psychological Operations Battalion. The unit was reorganized and redesignated on 16 November 1995 as Headquarters, Headquarters and Service Company, 6th Psychological Operations Battalion with its organic elements concurrently constituted and activated with personnel from provisional units. These provisional units had participated in Operation Desert Shield and Operation Desert Storm, and subsequently the unit was authorized campaign streamers for Defense of Saudi Arabia, Liberation and Defense of Kuwait, and Cease-Fire.