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.
Army Special Forces. It's quite common for the layman (and the media) to refer to all Special Operations Forces as Special Forces.. However, there is only one real Special Forces, and that's the United States Army Special Forces, sometimes referred to as the Green Berets.. The other elite military groups are more properly referred to as Special Operations Forces, or Special Ops..