Organized 20 August 1896 in the North Carolina State Guard at Edenton as
Company D (Edenton Light Infantry), 2d Regiment of Infantry

Reorganized and redesignated 1 December 1898 at Edenton as Company I, 1st Regiment of Infantry

Reorganized and redesignated 13 June 1899 as Company I, 2d Regiment of Infantry

(North Carolina State Guard redesignated 20 March 1903 as the North Carolina National Guard)

Mustered into Federal service 19 June 1916 at Edenton

Drafted into Federal service 5 August 1917

Reorganized and redesignated 12 September 1917 as Company I, 119th Infantry, and assigned to the 30th Division (later redesignated as the 30th Infantry Division)

Demobilized 17 April 1919 at Camp Jackson, South Carolina

Reorganized and Federally recognized 24 November 1922 in the North Carolina National Guard at Edenton as the 115th Ambulance Company, 105th Medical Regiment

Reorganized and redesignated 1 January 1937 as Company F, 105th Medical Regiment

Reorganized and redesignated 1 December 1939 as Company D, 105th Medical Regiment

Inducted into Federal service 16 September 1940 at Edenton

Reorganized and redesignated 7 February 1942 as Company D, 105th Medical Battalion

Inactivated 17 November 1945 at Fort Jackson, South Carolina

Reorganized and Federally recognized 12 May 1947 in the North Carolina National Guard at Edenton as the Heavy Mortar Company, 119th Infantry, an element of the 30th Infantry Division

Reorganized and redesignated 1 April 1959 as the Combat Support Company, 4th Battle Group, 119th Infantry

Reorganized and redesignated 10 March 1963 as the Battalion Mortar and Davy Crockett Platoon and Battalion Medical Section, Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 4th Battalion, 119th Infantry

Reorganized and redesignated 1 March 1964 as the 3d Rifle and Weapon Platoon, Company C, 4th Battalion, 119th Infantry

Reorganized and redesignated 1 January 1968 as the 2d Rifle Platoon and Weapon Platoon, Company C, 1st Battalion, 119th Infantry

Reorganized and redesignated 1 February 1970 as Detachment 1, Company C, 1st Battalion, 119th Infantry

Consolidated 1 October 1999 with Company B, 1st Battalion, 119th Infantry (see ANNEX 1), and consolidated unit designated as Company B, 1st Battalion, 119th Infantry; concurrently, location changed to Williamston

Converted, reorganized, and redesignated 15 November 1999 as the 725th Quartermaster Company; concurrently, location changed to Edenton

Ordered into active Federal service 6 April 2005 at Edenton; released from active Federal service 2 October 2006 and reverted to state control

ANNEX 1

Organized and Federally recognized 26 January 1950 in the North Carolina Army National Guard at Williamston as Battery C, 150th Antiaircraft Artillery Automatic Weapons Battalion

Converted, reorganized, and redesignated 1 April 1959 as the Reconnaissance and Assault Weapon Platoons, Combat Support Company, 2d Battle Group, 119th Infantry, an element of the 30th Infantry Division
725th QUARTERMASTER COMPANY

Reorganized and redesignated 10 March 1963 as the Ground Surveillance Section, Battalion Reconnaissance, and Battalion Anti-Tank Platoons, Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 4th Battalion, 119th Infantry

Reorganized and redesignated 1 March 1964 as Company A, 4th Battalion, 119th Infantry

Reorganized and redesignated I January 1968 as Company B, 1st Battalion, 119th Infantry

HOME STATION: Edenton (less detachments at Elizabeth City and Scotland Neck)

 

CAMPAIGN PARTICIPATION CREDIT

                                                World War I
                                                Flanders
                                                Ypres-Lys
                                                Somme 1918

                                                World War II
                                                Normandy
                                                Northern France
                                                Rhineland
                                                Ardennes-Alsace
                                                Central Europe

                                                War on Terrorism
                                                Campaigns to be determined

DECORATIONS

            Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), Streamer embroidered EUROPEAN THEATER

            Belgian Fourragere 1940

Cited in the Order of the Day of the Belgium Army for action in Belgium

Cited in the Order of the Day of the Belgian Army for action in the Ardennes

BY ORDER OF THE SECRETARY OF THE ARMY: