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Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 400th Military Police Battalion

  • Constituted 19 November 1944 in the Army of the United States as the 400th Military Police Battalion
  • Activated 20 November 1944 in France
  • Inactivated 9 April 1946 at Camp Kilmer, New Jersey
  • Allotted to the Organized Reserves and activated 1 May 1947 at Washington, D.C.
  • (Organized Reserves redesignated 25 March 1948 as the Organized Reserve Corps; on 9 July 1952 as the Army Reserve)
  • Inactivated 25 May 1959 at Washington, D.C.
  • Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment activated 16 September 1989 at Fort George G. Meade, Maryland
  • Ordered into active military service 15 November 1990 at Fort George G. Meade, Maryland; released from active military service 20 May 1991 and reverted to reserve status
  • Ordered into active military service 25 October 2001 at Fort George G. Meade, Maryland; released from active military service 24 October 2002 and reverted to reserve status
  • Ordered into active military service 24 February 2003 at Fort George G. Meade, Maryland; released from active military service 23 February 2004 and reverted to reserve status
  • Ordered into active military service 8 November 2007 at Fort George G. Meade, Maryland; released from active military service 11 December 2008 and reverted to reserve status

Campaign Participation Credit

  • World War II
  • Rome-Arno
  • Rhineland
  • Southwest Asia
  • Defense of Saudi Arabia
  • Liberation and Defense of Kuwait
  • War on Terrorism
  • Iraq:
  • Iraqi Surge

Decorations

None

By Order of the Secretary of the Army:

CHARLES R. BOWERY, JR.
Chief of Military History


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