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Headquarters and Headquarters Company
1st Armored Division Support Command
(Muleskinners)

Lineage and Honors Information as of 24 March 1998

Headquarters and Headquarters Company
1st Armored Division Support Command Lineage

Constituted 1 January 1942 in the Regular Army as Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment, 1st Armored Division Trains

Activated 10 January 1942 at Fort Knox, Kentucky

Reorganized and redesignated 24 January 1942 as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 1st Armored Division Trains

Inactivated 25 April 1946 at Camp Kilmer, New Jersey Activated 7 March 1951 at Fort Hood, Texas

Reorganized and redesignated 15 February 1957 as Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment, 1st Armored Division Trains

Consolidated 3 February 1962 with the 1st Armored Division Band (organized in 1943) and consolidated unit reorganized and redesignated as Headquarters, Headquarters and Band, 1st Armored Division Support Command

Reorganized and redesignated 15 April 1968 as Headquarters, Headquarters Company and Band, 1st Armored Division Support Command

Reorganized and redesignated 21 August 1972 as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 1st Armored Division Support Command (Band element concurrently withdrawn - hereafter separate lineage)

Headquarters and Headquarters Company
1st Armored Division Support Command Honors

Campaign Participation Credit

World War II: Tunisia; Naples-Foggia; Rome-Arno; North Apennines; Po Valley

Southwest Asia: Defense of Saudi Arabia; Liberation and Defense of Kuwait; Cease-Fire

Decorations

Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army) for SOUTHWEST ASIA


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