Deactivated following its return from Vietnam, the 1st Military Intelligence Battalion began a phased reactivation in 1983 in an attached status to VII U.S. Corps.
Activated 16 January 1984 in Germany.
Its separate companies moved from VII to V Corps between 1983 and 1986. The 1st Military Intelligence Battalion became V Corps’ Aerial Exploitation Battalion on 16 June 1986.
On 15 January 1991, elements of the 1st Military Intelligence Battalion deployed to Southwest Asia as part of the multinational force conducting Operation Desert Shield/Storm, returning on 10 April 1991.
The unit was one of the first units to deploy in support of Operation Joint Endeavor in December 1995.
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