Lineage And Honors Information
Lineage and Honors Information as of 17 May 2016
Headquarters and Headquarters Company
7th Infantry Division
(Bayonet)
- Constituted 6 December 1917 in the Regular Army as Headquarters, 7th Division
- Organized 1 January 1918 at Camp Wheeler, Georgia
- Inactivated 22 September 1921 at Camp Meade, Maryland
- Activated 1 July 1940 at Camp Ord, California
- Redesignated 9 April 1942 as Headquarters, 7th Motorized Division
- Reorganized and redesignated 1 January 1943 as Headquarters, 7th Infantry Division
- Reorganized and redesignated 1 July 1960 as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 7th Infantry Division
- Inactivated 2 April 1971 at Fort Lewis, Washington
- Activated 21 October 1974 at Fort Ord, California
- Inactivated 16 June 1994 at Fort Lewis, Washington
- Activated 16 October 1999 at Fort Carson, Colorado
- Inactivated 18 August 2006 at Fort Carson, Colorado
- Headquarters activated 1 October 2012 at Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Washington
Campaign Participation Credit
- World War I
- Lorraine 1918
- World War II
- Aleutian Islands
- Eastern Mandates
- Leyte
- Ryukyus
- 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
- Armed Forces Expeditions
- Panama
Decorations
- Philippine Presidential Unit Citation, Streamer embroidered 17 OCTOBER 1944 TO 4 JULY 1945
- Republic of Korea Presidential Unit Citation, Streamer embroidered INCHON
- Republic of Korea Presidential Unit Citation, Streamer embroidered KOREA 1950-1953
- Republic of Korea Presidential Unit Citation, Streamer embroidered KOREA 1945-1948; 1953-1971
By Order of the Secretary of the Army:
CHARLES R. BOWERY, JR.
Chief of Military History