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.
Full Definition of ARMY. 1. a: a large organized body of armed personnel trained for war especially on land b: a unit capable of independent action and consisting usually of a headquarters, two or more corps, and auxiliary troops c often capitalized: the complete military organization of a nation for land warfare. 2.