Special Troops Battalion, 3rd Brigade Combat Team
"Vanguards/Strength and Skill"
The mission of the Special Troops Battalion, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, is to, on order deploy to a specified theater of operations, and integrate/execute the intelligence, M/CM/S, and C2 functions, in order to enable the 3rd Brigade Combat Team to conduct full spectrum operations. The Brigade Troops Battalion includes the its staff, a military police (MP) platoon, a signal company, an intelligence company, an engineer company, and a fire support coordination cell.
The Special Troops Battalion, 3rd Brigade Combat Team was first constituted on 16 September 2004 in the Regular Army as Special Troops Battalion, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division, and activated at Fort Drum, New York. The US Army's modular force structure transformation included the creation of Brigade Special Troops Battalions. These units were designed to provide organic signals, engineering, military intelligence, military police, and other support which had historically been achieved by the habitual attachment of companies and platoons from units assigned to parent divisions. Elements of the 10th Signal Battalion, 110th Military Intelligence Battalion, 41st Engineer Battalion, and 10th Military Police Company were all inactivated and reflagged as elements of the new BTSBs.
The distinctive unit insignia was approved on 5 November 2004. On a silver color metal and blue enameled vertical tonneau-shaped device (curved outward on the right and left sides) 1 1/4 inches (3.18 cm) overall, a stylized light blue mountain, snow-capped white surmounted by two crossed arms in armour gauntleted Proper, grasping in the left hand a red pickaxe and in the right hand a red lightning flash, all below two crossed silver gray bayonets. Attached below, a black motto scroll inscribed "FORTITUDO ET ARTIS" in silver letters.
The shield shape was adapted from the Tenth Mountain Division patch. The device symbolizes a powder keg, suggesting the unit's military power. The snow-capped mountain symbolizes the links the 126th Mountain Engineer Battalion has to the 41st Engineer Battalion, the parent battalion. The two crossed gauntlets denote teamwork, holding in each hand a lightning flash and pickaxe, also the blue color of the mountain (Military Intelligence color) denotes the union of the three branches: Signal, Engineer and Military Intelligence, as a team. The bayonets, also adapted from the Tenth Mountain Division patch, represent military readiness.
As of late Spring 2006, the 3d Brigade Special Troops Battalion was conducting operations in Afghanistan.
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