The university grew from the 1959 merger of two schools: Wisconsin State College, Platteville and Wisconsin Institute of Technology. WSC-Platteville was founded in 1866 as Platteville Normal School, the first teacher preparation school in Wisconsin.
Special Troops Battalion. A special troops battalion (STB) is an organic unit of a modular brigade, division (or equivalent), corps or higher echelon United States Army organization. It may comprise companies from different branches of the army, but typically has a Headquarters and Headquarters Company (HHC) and Signal Network Company at a minimum.
1.Green Berets are the actual U.S. Army Special Operations Forces. 2.Army Rangers, which was originally formed as a special force, is now used as a rapid deployment force. U.S. Rangers is a light infantry unit that performs almost all the duties of the Green Berets.