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.
This is a list of non-military law enforcement units tasked with special duties, including:1  Security of the state, state officials and foreign dignitaries. 2  Offensive domestic counter-terrorist actions. 3  Serving high-risk arrest warrants. DENSUS 88 / Detasmen Khusus 88 (Police Special Counter Terrorist Force) - POLRI. 2  Brigade Mobil (National Police Special Operations Force, Police Commandos, Special Response team).