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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