817th Engineer Company

• Organized 14 October 1883 in the Dakota Militia at Jamestown as Company H
• Redesignated 13 January 1885 as Company H, 1st Regiment, Dakota Militia
• (Territory of Dakota divided into states of North and South Dakota pursuant to enabling Act of Congress, 22 February 1889, effected by Proclamation of the President, 2 November 1889; organized militia of North Dakota redesignated 6 March 1891 as the North Dakota National Guard)
• Mustered into Federal service 20 May 1898 at Jamestown as Company H, 1st North Dakota Volunteer Infantry; mustered out of Federal service 25 September 1899 and reorganized in the North Dakota National Guard as Company H, 1st Infantry
• Mustered into Federal service 3 July 1916; mustered out of Federal service 14 February 1917
• Drafted into Federal service 5 August 1917
• Reorganized and redesignated 4 October 1917 as Company H, 164th Infantry and assigned to the 41st Division
• Demobilized 28 February 1919 at Camp Dix, New Jersey
• Reorganized and Federally recognized 20 January 1921 as Company H, 1st Infantry; redesignated 21 October 1921 as Company H, 164th Infantry, an element of the 34th Division
• Inducted into Federal service 10 February 1941 at Jamestown
• (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 29 April 1947 at Jamestown
• Ordered into active Federal service 16 January 1951 at Jamestown (Company H, 164th Infantry [NGUS] organized and Federally recognized 16 January 1953 at Jamestown)
• Released from active Federal service 2 December 1954 and reverted to state control; concurrently, Federal recognition withdrawn from Company H, 164th Infantry (NGUS)
• Converted and redesignated 15 April 1955 as Headquarters Company, 142d Engineer Battalion
• Consolidated 1 April 1959 with the Medical Detachment, 142d Engineer Battalion (organized 15 April 1955), and consolidated unit designated as Headquarters Company, 142d Engineer Battalion
• Reorganized and redesignated 1 April 1963 as the 1st Equipment Platoon, 816th Engineer Company
• Consolidated 1 May 1968 with Company B, 141st Engineer Battalion (see ANNEX) and consolidated unit designated as Company B, 164th Engineer Battalion
• Reorganized and redesignated 1 March 1972 as Company B, 141st Engineer Battalion
• Ordered into active Federal service 18 December 2003 at Jamestown; released from active Federal service 28 April 2005 and reverted to state control
• Ordered into active Federal service 7 June 2007 at Jamestown; released from active Federal service 10 July 2008 and reverted to state control
• Reorganized and redesignated 1 September 2008 as the 817th Engineer Company
• ANNEX
• Organized and Federally recognized 1 April 1937 in the North Dakota National Guard at Jamestown as Battery F, 185th Field Artillery, an element of the 34th Division
• Reorganized and redesignated 16 September 1940 as Battery C, 188th Field Artillery and relieved from assignment to the 34th Division
• Inducted into Federal service 1 April 1941 at Jamestown
• Reorganized and redesignated 8 February 1943 as Battery C, 188th Field Artillery Battalion
• Inactivated 27 October 1945 at Camp Myles Standish, Massachusetts
• (188th Field Artillery Battalion assigned 10 June 1946 to the 47th Infantry Division)
• Reorganized and Federally recognized 13 November 1947 at Jamestown
• Ordered into active Federal service 16 January 1951 at Jamestown (Battery C, 188th Field Artillery Battalion [NGUS] organized and Federally recognized 16 January 1953 at Jamestown)
• Released from active Federal service 2 December 1954 and reverted to state control; concurrently, Federal recognition withdrawn from Battery C, 188th Field Artillery Battalion (NGUS)
• Reorganized and redesignated 1 July 1955 as Battery C, 188th Armored Field Artillery Battalion
• Converted and redesignated 1 April 1959 as Company C, 142d Engineer Battalion
• Reorganized and redesignated 1 April 1963 as Company B, 141st Engineer Battalion

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