Lineage And Honors Information
Lineage and Honors Information as of 2 July 2013
1st Medical Laboratory
(Soldier Scientists)
- Constituted 1 October 1933 in the Regular Army as the 1st Medical Laboratory
- Activated 20 March 1942 at Fort Sam Houston, Texas
- Reorganized and redesignated 25 October 1944 as the 1st Medical Service Detachment
- Reorganized and redesignated 1 May 1945 as the 1st Medical Laboratory
- Inactivated 4 February 1946 in Germany
- Redesignated 27 September 1951 as the 1st Medical Field Laboratory, Army
- Activated 1 November 1951 in Korea
- Reorganized and redesignated 1 April 1954 as the 1st Medical Laboratory
- Inactivated 28 January 1955 in Korea
- Activated 22 October 1962 at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Washington, D.C.
- Inactivated 6 February 1970 in Vietnam
- Activated 21 June 1976 at Tobyhanna, Pennsylvania
- Inactivated 15 June 1993 at Fort Hood, Texas
- Activated 16 September 2004 at Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland
CAMPAIGN PARTICIPATION CREDIT
- World War II
- Tunisia
- Naples-Foggia
- Rome-Arno
- Southern France
- Rhineland
- Ardennes-Alsace
- Central Europe
- Korean War
- UN Summer-Fall Offensive
- Second Korean Winter
- Korea, Summer-Fall 1952
- Third Korean Winter
- Korea, Summer 1953
- Vietnam
- Counteroffensive, Phase V
- Counteroffensive, Phase VI
- Tet 69/Counteroffensive
- Summer-Fall 1969
- Winter-Spring 1970
DECORATIONS
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Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), Streamer embroidered KOREA 1951-1952
Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), Streamer embroidered KOREA 1953-1954
Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), Streamer embroidered VIETNAM 1968-1970
BY ORDER OF THE SECRETARY OF THE ARMY:
ROBERT J. DALESSANDRO
Director, Center of Military History