Lineage and Honors Information as of 19 October 2019
Headquarters and Headquarters Company
55th Maneuver Enhancement Brigade
- Organized 29 July 1898 in the Pennsylvania National Guard at Scranton as Company K, 11th Provisional Infantry Regiment
- Redesignated 8 August 1899 as Company K, 13th Infantry Regiment
- Mustered into Federal service 26 September 1916 at Mount Gretna; drafted into Federal service 5 August 1917
- Consolidated 11 October 1917 with Company K, 1st Infantry Regiment (organized in 1876), and consolidated unit reorganized and redesignated as Company K, 109th Infantry, an element of the 28th Division
- Demobilized 20 May 1919 at Camp Dix, New Jersey
- Former Company K, 13th Infantry Regiment, reorganized 6 July 1920 in the Pennsylvania National Guard at Scranton as Company K, 13th Infantry; Federally recognized 20 July 1920
- Redesignated 1 April 1921 as Company B, 109th Infantry, an element of the 28th Division (redesignated 17 February 1942 as the 28th Infantry Division)
- Inducted into Federal service 17 February 1941 at Scranton
- Inactivated 22 October 1945 at Camp Shelby, Mississippi
- Reorganized and Federally recognized 17 December 1946 at Scranton
- Ordered into active Federal service 5 September 1950 at Scranton
- (Company B, 109th Infantry [NGUS], organized and Federally recognized 13 July 1953 at Scranton)
- Released 15 June 1954 from active Federal service and reverted to state control; Federal recognition concurrently withdrawn from Company B, 109th Infantry (NGUS)
- Reorganized and redesignated 1 June 1959 as Company B, 1st Battle Group, 109th Infantry
- Reorganized and redesignated 1 April 1963 as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 3d Brigade, 28th Infantry Division
- Redesignated 17 February 1968 as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 55th Brigade, 28th Infantry Division
- Ordered into active Federal service 25 June 2002 at Scranton; released from active Federal service 24 June 2003 and reverted to state control1
- Reorganized and redesignated 1 September 2007 as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 55th Brigade Combat Team, 28th Infantry Division
- Elements ordered into active Federal service 6-9 October 2012 at Scranton, released from active Federal service 9-12 November 2013 and reverted to state control
- Converted and redesignated 1 September 2016 as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 55th Maneuver Enhancement Brigade, and relieved from assignment to the 28th Infantry Division2
HOME STATION: Scranton
Campaign Participation Credit
- World War I
- Champagne-Marne
- Aisne-Marne
- Oise-Aisne
- Meuse-Argonne
- Champagne 1918
- Lorraine 1918
- World War II
- Normandy
- Northern France
- Rhineland
- Ardennes-Alsace
- Central Europe
- War on Terrorism
- Campaigns to be determined
Decorations
- French Croix de Guerre with Palm, Streamer embroidered COLMAR
- Luxembourg Croix de Guerre, Streamer embroidered LUXEMBOURG
By Order of the Secretary of the Army:
CHARLES R. BOWERY, JR.
Chief of Military History