Organized 27 July 1878 in the Pennsylvania National Guard at Chambersburg as the Franklin Guards

Redesignated 11 October 1878 as Company C, 8th Infantry Regiment

Disbanded 19 June 1884 at Chambersburg

Reorganized 5 September 1884 in the Pennsylvania National Guard at Chambersburg as a separate company of infantry

Redesignated 3 June 1887 as Company C, 8th Infantry Regiment

Mustered into Federal service 12 May 1898 at Mount Gretna as Company C, 8th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry; mustered out of Federal service 7 March 1899 at Augusta, Georgia

Reorganized 24 April 1899 in the Pennsylvania National Guard at Chambersburg as Company C, 8th Infantry Regiment

Mustered into Federal service 9 July 1916 at Mount Gretna; mustered out of Federal service 27 February 1917

Mustered into Federal service 17 July 1917 at Harrisburg; drafted into Federal service
5 August 1917

Consolidated 11 October 1917 with Company C, 16th Infantry (organized in 1880), and consolidated unit designated as Company C, 112th Infantry, an element of the 28th Division

Demobilized 6 May 1919 at Camp Dix, New Jersey

Former Company C, 8th Infantry, reorganized and Federally recognized 22 March 1921 in the Pennsylvania National Guard at Chambersburg

Converted and redesignated 1 June 1921 as Troop E, 104th Cavalry, an element of the 22d Cavalry Division

Converted and redesignated 23 September 1940 as Battery E, 166th Field Artillery, and relieved from assignment to the 22d Cavalry Division

Inducted into Federal service 13 January 1941 at Chambersburg

Reorganized and redesignated 7 March 1943 as Battery B, 939th Field Artillery Battalion

Inactivated 23 October 1945 at Camp Patrick Henry, Virginia

Converted and redesignated 24 May 1946 as the 728th Ordnance Company, and assigned to the 28th Infantry Division

Reorganized and Federally recognized 11 December 1946 at Chambersburg

Ordered into active Federal service 5 September 1950 at Chambersburg

Reorganized and redesignated 1 April 1953 as Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment, 728th Ordnance Battalion (organic elements concurrently organized and activated)

728th Ordnance Battalion released 15 June 1954 from active Federal service and reverted to state control; concurrently consolidated with Company F, 104th Armored Cavalry (organized and Federally recognized 6 November 1950 at Chambersburg), and consolidated unit designated as Company F, 104th Armored Cavalry

Reorganized and redesignated 1 June 1959 as Troop F, 104th Armored Cavalry

Redesignated 17 February 1968 as Troop B, 104th Armored Cavalry

Reorganized and redesignated 1 April 1975 as Troop B, 1st Squadron, 104th Cavalry, an element of the 28th Infantry Division

Expanded 1 October 1986 to form Long Range Surveillance Detachment, 1st Squadron, 104th Cavalry and Company D, 1st Battalion, 103d Armor (Company D, 1st Battalion, 103d Armor – hereafter separate lineage)

Consolidated 1 October 1987 with the 28th Infantry Detachment (organized and Federally recognized 1 October 1978 at Harrisburg) and consolidated unit designated as the Long Range Surveillance Detachment, 1st Squadron, 104th Cavalry

Reorganized and redesignated 1 September 1990 as the 104th Infantry Detachment, and relieved from assignment to the 28th Infantry Division

Location changed 1 August 1997 to Annville

Ordered into active Federal service 5 July 2002 at Annville; released from active Federal service 20 May 2003 and reverted to state control

HOME STATION: Annville

CAMPAIGN PARTICIPATION CREDIT

World War I
Champagne-Marne
Aisne-Marne
Oise-Aisne
Meuse-Argonne
Lorraine 1918
Champagne 1918

World War II
Naples-Foggia
Rome-Arno
North Apennines
Rhineland
Ardennes-Alsace
Central Europe

War on Terrorism
Campaigns to be determined

DECORATIONS

French Croix de Guerre with Silver-Gilt Star, Streamer embroidered ROME-ARNO

 

BY ORDER OF THE SECRETARY OF THE ARMY: