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Lineage and Honors Information as of 20 June 2012

HEADQUARTERS AND HEADQUARTERS DETACHMENT
728th MILITARY POLICE BATTALION
(WARFIGHTERS)

  • Constituted 10 January 1942 in the Army of the United States as the 728th Military Police Battalion
  • Activated 19 January 1942 at Fort Custer, Michigan
  • Allotted 29 March 1949 to the Regular Army
  • Reorganized and redesignated 1 October 1976 as Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment, 728th Military Police Battalion (organic elements concurrently inactivated in Korea)

CAMPAIGN PARTICIPATION CREDIT

  • Korean War
  • CCF Intervention
  • First UN Counteroffensive
  • CCF Spring Offensive
  • UN Summer-Fall Offensive
  • Second Korean Winter
  • Korea, Summer-Fall 1952
  • Third Korean Winter
  • Korea, Summer 1953
  • War on Terrorism
  •   Iraq:
  • Iraqi Surge
  • (Additional campaigns to be determined)

DECORATIONS

  • Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), Streamer embroidered KOREA 1950-1952
  • Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), Streamer embroidered KOREA 1952-1954
  • Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), Streamer embroidered IRAQ 2007-2008
  • Army Superior Unit Award, Streamer embroidered 1988

BY ORDER OF THE SECRETARY OF THE ARMY:

ROBERT J. DALESSANDRO
Director, Center of Military History


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