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.
De Oppresso Liber Does Not Mean âTo Free the Oppressedâ, and Eight Other Things you Did Not know About the Special Forces. Special Forces soldiers are the subjects of many movies and forms of entertainment. They are viewed as an unstoppable force throughout the world, taking on bad guys and getting themselves out of impossible situations. The term conjures up images of Rambo and other fighting heroes.