C003227

Shield shaped, with banner mounted above and beneath, pewter colored coin, 2 inches high x 1-9/16 inches wide.

2nd Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division

Coin Number 0634

SIDE 1 - A red torch detailed black and white, surmounted by crossed blue bayonet and yellow lightning flash, surmounted by the 2nd Infantry Division Class A patch with a white number 2 below the star; all on a gray background; at the top, a white ribbon banner outlined in gray and inscribed, "CARPE ALTAM TERRAM" (probable translation - seize the deep earth); below, a white ribbon banner outlined in gray and inscribed, "SECOND TO NONE."

The 2nd Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division was first organized in October 1920 at Camp Travis, Texas. It was disbanded on 16 October 1939. The Brigade was reactivated on 15 February 1963 at Fort Benning, Georgia. From there it followed the 1st Brigade, 2d Infantry Division to the Republic of Korea in 1965, where it was stationed until 2005. By August 2005 the unit, which had called the Republic of Korea its home for the last 50 years, relocated to Fort Carson, Colorado after a deployment in Iraq. The 2nd Brigade Combat Team redeployed to Fort Carson, Colorado after completing the Brigade's first deployment since Viet Nam. In October 2006, the new brigade returned to Iraq as part of Operation Iraq Freedom VI. After the deployment the 2d Brigade Combat Team, 2d Infantry Division was subsequently inactivated in April 2008. In July 2010, the 5th Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division was inactivated and reflagged as the 2nd Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division Lancers and stationed at Fort Lewis Washington..