The 302nd Military Intelligence Battalion (302nd MI BN), whose unit crest portrays the "sly fox", evolved from the 3252d Signal Service Company which was activated in England on 1 April 1944.

[2] As part of V Corps, the 302nd deployed to Iraq for Operation Iraqi Freedom in 2003 and a subsequent rotation.

On 20 September 2003, Specialist Lunsford Brown, from Alpha Company, was killed in action at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq.

[3] On January 2, 2004, James Stacy Adams, the battalion's Command Sergeant Major, was found dead in his apartment.

The key is for the unit's first campaign (Normandy) in World War II and also alludes to signal and intelligence functions.