Lineage and Honors Information as of 27 April 2017
Headquarters and Headquarters Company
23d Chemical Battalion
- Constituted 27 May 1944 in the Army of the United States as Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment, 23d Chemical Smoke Generator Battalion, and activated in England
- Inactivated 12 November 1945 in France
- Redesignated 18 January 1949 as Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment, 4th Chemical Smoke Generator Battalion, and allotted to the Regular Army
- Activated 1 February 1949 at the Army Chemical Center, Edgewood, Maryland
- Reorganized and redesignated 4 March 1954 as Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment, 4th Chemical Battalion
- Inactivated 15 June 1959 in Germany
- Redesignated 16 September 1988 as Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment, 23d Chemical Battalion, and activated in Korea
- Reorganized and redesignated 16 October 2016 as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 23d Chemical Battalion
Campaign Participation Credit
- World War II
- Normandy
- Northern France
- Rhineland
- Ardennes-Alsace
- Central Europe
- Korean War
- UN Defensive
- UN Offensive
- CCF Intervention
- First UN Counteroffensive
- CCF Spring Offensive
- UN Summer-Fall Offensive
- Second Korean Winter
- Korea, Summer-Fall 1952
- Third Korean Winter
- Korea, Summer 1953
- War on Terrorism
- Afghanistan:
- Consolidation II
Decorations
- Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), Streamer embroidered KOREA 1952
- Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), Streamer embroidered KOREA 1952-1953
- Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), Streamer embroidered AFGHANISTAN 2007-2008
- Army Superior Unit Award, Streamer embroidered 2013-2014
- Republic of Korea Presidential Unit Citation, Streamer embroidered KOREA 1950-1952
- Republic of Korea Presidential Unit Citation, Streamer embroidered KOREA 1952-1953
By Order of the Secretary of the Army:
CHARLES R. BOWERY, JR.
Chief of Military History
By Order of the Secretary of the Army:
CHARLES R. BOWERY, JR.
Chief of Military History