188th Engineer Company

• Organized 17 May 1897 in the North Dakota National Guard at Wahpeton as Company I, 1st Infantry Regiment
• Mustered into Federal service 20 May 1898 as Company I, 1st North Dakota Volunteer Infantry; mustered out of Federal service 25 September 1899 at San Francisco
• Reorganized in November 1899 at Wahpeton as Company I, 1st Infantry Regiment
• Mustered into Federal service 1 July 1916; mustered out of Federal service 14 February 1917 at Fort Snelling, Minnesota
• Drafted into Federal service 5 August 1917
• Redesignated 4 October 1917 as Company A, 164th Infantry, an element of the 41st Division
• Demobilized 28 February 1919 at Camp Dix, New Jersey
• Reorganized and Federally recognized 8 June 1921 at Wahpeton as Company I, 1st Infantry
• Redesignated 21 October 1921 as Company I, 164th Infantry, an element of the 34th Division
• Inducted into Federal service 10 February 1941 at Wahpeton
• (164th Infantry relieved 8 December 1941 from assignment to the 34th Division; assigned 24 May 1942 to the Americal Division)
• Inactivated 24 November 1945 at Fort Lawton, Washington
• (164th Infantry relieved 10 June 1946 from assignment to the Americal Division and assigned to the 47th Infantry Division)
• Reorganized and Federally recognized 14 November 1947 at Wahpeton
• Ordered into active Federal service 16 January 1951 at Wahpeton
• (Company I, 164th Infantry [NGUS], organized and Federally recognized 16 January 1953 at Wahpeton)
• Released from active Federal service 2 December 1954 and reverted to state control; concurrently, Federal recognition withdrawn from Company I, 164th Infantry (NGUS)
• Reorganized and redesignated 15 April 1955 as Company C, 957th Infantry Battalion
• Converted and redesignated 1 March 1956 as Battery C, 957th Field Artillery Battalion
• Converted and redesignated 1 April 1959 as the 1050th Transportation Company
• Reorganized and redesignated 1 April 1963 as the 1st and 2d Engineer Platoons, Company C, 231st Engineer Battalion
• Reorganized and redesignated 1 May 1968 as the 2d and 3d Engineer Platoons, Company A, 141st Engineer Battalion
• Reorganized and redesignated 1 March 1972 as Detachment 1, 816th Engineer Company
• Reorganized and redesignated 1 October 1985 as Company B, 142d Engineer Battalion
• Ordered into active Federal service 6 January 2000 at Wahpeton; released from active Federal service 27 August 2000 and reverted to state control
• Ordered into active Federal service 24 January 2003 at Wahpeton; released from active Federal service 23 January 2004 and reverted to state control
• Consolidated 1 September 2007 with Detachment 1, Company B, 142d Engineer Battalion (organized and Federally recognized 27 September 1993 at Fargo), and consolidated unit designated as Company B, 142d Engineer Battalion
• Reorganized and redesignated 1 September 2008 as the 188th Engineer Company
• Ordered into active Federal service 23 August 2011 at Wahpeton; released from active Federal service 22 September 2012 and reverted to state control

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