Lineage And Honors Information
Lineage and Honors Information as of 20 November 2012
HEADQUARTERS AND HEADQUARTERS COMPANY
338th MEDICAL BRIGADE
- Constituted 27 June 1944 in the Army of the United States as the 59th Hospital Train
- Activated 24 August 1944 at Camp Grant, Illinois
- Inactivated 13 November 1945 at Camp Sibert, Alabama
- Redesignated 15 March 1948 as the 396th Hospital Train and allotted to the Organized Reserves
- (Organized Reserves redesignated 25 March 1948 as the Organized Reserve Corps; redesignated 9 July 1952 as the Army Reserve)
- Activated 29 March 1948 at Connellsville, Pennsylvania
- Reorganized and redesignated 25 May 1950 as Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment, 338th Medical Group
- Location changed 5 July 1950 to Altoona, Pennsylvania
- Inactivated 28 April 1959 at Altoona, Pennsylvania
- Activated 1 November 1971 at Folsom, Pennsylvania
- Location changed 22 September 1995 to Chester, Pennsylvania
- Reorganized and redesignated 17 September 2002 as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 338th Medical Brigade
- Location changed 30 June 2011 to Horsham, Pennsylvania
- (Elements ordered into active military service to support the War on Terrorism)
CAMPAIGN PARTICIPATION CREDIT
- World War II
- European-African-Middle Eastern Theater,
- Streamer without inscription
- War on Terrorism
- Campaigns to be determined
DECORATIONS
- None
BY ORDER OF THE SECRETARY OF THE ARMY:
ROBERT J. DALESSANDRO
Director, Center of Military History