Lineage and Honors Information as of 19 May 2017
Headquarters
37th Infantry Brigade Combat Team
(Buckeye)
- Constituted 18 July 1917 in the Ohio National Guard as Headquarters, 37th Division
- Organized 26 August 1917 at Camp Sheridan, Alabama
- Demobilized 23 June 1919 at Camp Sherman, Ohio
- Reorganized and Federally recognized 31 May 1923 in the Ohio National Guard at Columbus as Headquarters, 37th Division
- Inducted into Federal service 15 October 1940 at Columbus
- Redesignated 1 February 1942 as Headquarters, 37th Infantry Division
- Inactivated 18 December 1945 at Camp Anza, California
- Reorganized and Federally recognized 11 November 1946 at Columbus
- Ordered into active Federal service 15 January 1952 at Columbus
- (Headquarters, 37th Infantry Division [NGUS], organized and Federally recognized 15 January 1954 at Columbus)
- Released 15 June 1954 from active Federal service and reverted to state control; Federal recognition concurrently withdrawn from Headquarters, 37th Infantry Division (NGUS)
- Reorganized and redesignated 15 February 1968 as Headquarters, 73d Brigade, 38th Infantry Division
- Reorganized and redesignated 1 March 1977 as Headquarters, 73d Infantry Brigade and relieved from assignment to the 38th Infantry Division
- Redesignated 6 September 1992 as Headquarters, 37th Infantry Brigade
- Reorganized and redesignated 1 September 1993 as Headquarters, 37th Brigade, 28th Infantry Division; location concurrently changed to North Canton
- Redesignated 1 September 1994 as Headquarters, 37th Brigade, 38th Infantry Division
- Location changed 1 June 2004 to Columbus
- Ordered into active Federal service 5 July 2004 at Columbus; released from active Federal service 1 November 2005 and reverted to state control
- Reorganized and redesignated 1 September 2007 as Headquarters, 37th Infantry Brigade Combat Team and relieved from assignment to the 38th Infantry Division
- Ordered into active Federal service 2 January 2008 at Columbus; released from active Federal service 4 February 2009 and reverted to state control
- Ordered into active Federal service 15 October 2011 at Columbus; released from active Federal service 17 November 2012 and reverted to state control
- Ordered into active Federal service 3 September 2016 at Columbus
HOME STATION: Columbus
Campaign Participation Credit
- World War I
- Ypres-Lys
- Meuse-Argonne
- Lorraine 1918
- World War II
- Northern Solomons
- Luzon (with arrowhead)
- Kosovo
- Kosovo Defense
- War on Terrorism
- Global War on Terrorism
- Afghanistan:
- Transition I
Decorations
- Army Superior Unit Award, Streamer embroidered: 2004-2005
- Philippine Presidential Unit Citation, Streamer embroidered: 17 OCTOBER 1944 TO 4 JULY 1945
By Order of the Secretary of the Army:
CHARLES R. BOWERY, JR.
Chief of Military History