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Lineage and Honors Information as of 18 February 2011

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100th ARMY BAND

 

Constituted 2 August 1943 in the Army of the United States as the Band, 100th Infantry Division

Activated 14 August 1943 at Fort Jackson, South Carolina

Reorganized and redesignated 1 December 1943 as the 100th Infantry Division Band

Inactivated 15 January 1946 at Camp Patrick Henry, Virginia

Redesignated 15 October 1946 as the 100th Airborne Division Band, and allotted to the Organized Reserves

(Organized Reserves redesignated 25 March 1948 as the Organized Reserve Corps; redesignated 9 July 1952 as the Army Reserve)

Redesignated 12 May 1952 as the 100th Infantry Division Band

Activated 1 August 1956 at Fort Thomas, Kentucky

Reorganized and redesignated 17 April 1959 as the 100th Division Band

Ordered into active military service 25 September 1961 at Fort Thomas, Kentucky; released from active military service 15 August 1962 and reverted to reserve status

Consolidated 26 January 1968 with the Support Company, 100th Division (Training), and consolidated unit reorganized and redesignated as the Support Company and Band, 100th Division (Training)

Reorganized and redesignated 1 October 1970 as Headquarters, Headquarters Company and Band, 100th Support Battalion, an element of the 100th Division (Training)

Reorganized and redesignated 5 July 1971 as Headquarters, Headquarters Detachment and Band, 100th Support Battalion

(Location of Band element changed in 1979 to Hebron, Kentucky)

Band element withdrawn 16 November 1982 from  Headquarters, Headquarters Detachment and Band, 100th Support Battalion and redesignated as the 100th Army Band, an element of the 100th Division (Training), and location concurrently changed to Louisville, Kentucky (Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment, 100th Support Battalion--hereafter separate lineage)

Reorganized and redesignated 17 September 1983 as the Band element of Headquarters Company, 100th Division (Training)

Band element withdrawn 16 September 1988 from Headquarters Company, 100th Division (Training); concurrently reorganized and redesignated as the 100th Division Band

Location changed in 1990 to Fort Knox, Kentucky

Relieved 1 October 2008 from assignment to the 100th Division (Training)

Reorganized and redesignated 16 October 2008 as the 100th Army Band

 

CAMPAIGN PARTICIPATION CREDIT

                                                        World War II
                                                        Rhineland
                                                        Ardennes-Alsace
                                                        Central Europe


DECORATIONS

Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), Streamer embroidered EUROPEAN THEATER

 

BY ORDER OF THE SECRETARY OF THE ARMY:

 

PETER D. CREAN
COL, LG
Director, Center of Military History


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