Lineage and Honors Information as of 23 July 2012
324th MILITARY POLICE COMPANY
- Parent unit organized and Federally recognized 1 December 1924 in the Ohio National Guard at Middletown as Company B, 147th Infantry, an element of the 37th Division
- Redesignated 1 October 1930 as Company I, 147th Infantry
- Inducted into Federal service 15 October 1940 at Middletown
- (37th Infantry Division redesignated 1 February 1942 as the 37th Infantry Division)
- Relieved 31 July 1943 from assignment to the 37th Infantry Division
- Inactivated 15 December 1945 at Fort Lewis, Washington
- Reorganized and Federally recognized 25 April 1947 in the Ohio National Guard at Middletown as Company F, 147th Infantry, an element of the 37th Infantry Division
- Ordered into active Federal service 15 January 1952 at Middletown
- (Company F, 147th Infantry [NGUS] organized and Federally recognized 11 March 1954)
- Released from active Federal service 15 June 1954 and reverted to state control; Federal recognition concurrently withdrawn from Company F, 147th Infantry (NGUS)
- Federal recognition withdrawn 15 September 1954 from Company F, 147th Infantry; Company D, 147th Infantry, concurrently organized and Federally recognized at Middletown, as an element of the 37th Infantry Division
- Converted, reorganized, and redesignated 1 September 1959 as Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment, 112th Transportation Battalion, and relieved from assignment to the 37th Infantry Division
- Consolidated 1 September 1996 with the 324th Military Police Company (organized and Federally recognized 10 December 1993 at Middletown) and consolidated unit designated as the 324th Military Police Company
- Ordered into active Federal service 7 February 2003 at Middletown; released from active Federal service 17 November 2004 and reverted to state control
- Expanded, reorganized, and redesignated 1 September 2005 as the 324th Military Police Company and Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment, 155th Chemical Battalion (Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment, 155th Chemical Battalion � hereafter separate lineage)
- HOME STATION: Middletown
CAMPAIGN PARTICIPATION CREDIT
- World War II
- Air Offensive, Japan
- Guadalcanal
- Northern Solomons
- War on Terrorism
- Iraq:
- Transition of Iraq
- Iraqi Governance
DECORATIONS
BY ORDER OF THE SECRETARY OF THE ARMY:
ROBERT J. DALESSANDRO
Director, Center of Military History
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