Lineages and Honors Information
Support / Sustainment

Lineage and Honors Information as of 19 May 2017

Headquarters and Special Troops Battalion
135th Sustainment Command

  • Organized 15 July 1911 in the Alabama National Guard at Birmingham as Company K, 4th Infantry
  • Mustered into Federal service 29 June 1916 at Birmingham
  • Drafted into Federal service 5 August 1917
  • Reorganized and redesignated 15 August 1917 as Company K, 167th Infantry
  • Demobilized 19 May 1919 at Camp Shelby, Mississippi
  • Reorganized, redesignated, and Federally recognized 22 October 1919 at Birmingham as Company K, 4th Infantry
  • Reorganized and redesignated 16 December 1921 as Company K, 167th Infantry
  • Inducted into Federal service 25 November 1940 at Birmingham
  • Inactivated 29 December 1945 at Camp Stoneman, California
  • Reorganized, redesignated, and Federally recognized 26 February 1947 at Birmingham as Company K, 167th Infantry
  • Ordered into active Federal service 16 January 1951 at Birmingham
  • (Company K, 167th Infantry [NGUS] organized and Federally recognized 18 January 1954 at Homewood)
  • Released 15 June 1954 from active Federal service and reverted to state control; Federal recognition concurrently withdrawn from Company K, 167th Infantry (NGUS); concurrently, location changed to Homewood
  • Reorganized and redesignated 2 May 1959 as Company B, 1st Battle Group, 167th Infantry
  • Redesignated 15 April 1963 as Company B, 1st Battalion, 167th Infantry
  • (Ordered into active Federal service 11 June 1963 at Homewood; released 23 June 1963 from active Federal service and reverted to state control. Ordered into active Federal service 10 September 1963 at Homewood; released 12 September 1963 from active Federal service and reverted to state control. Ordered into active Federal service 20 March 1965 at Homewood; released 29 March 1965 from active Federal service and reverted to state control)
  • Reorganized and redesignated 15 January 1968 as Detachment 1, Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 1st Battalion, 167th Infantry
  • Converted and redesignated 1 February 1972 as the 1167th Stock Control Company
  • Reorganized and redesignated 1 March 1976 as the 167th Material Management Center
  • Consolidated 1 October 1997 with Detachment 1, 167th Support Center (organized and Federally recognized 1 February 1972 at Opelika as the 1320th Service Detachment) and consolidated unit designated as the 167th Support Center
  • Reorganized and redesignated 1 October 2000 as Detachment 1, 200th Support Center
  • Ordered into active Federal service 1 February 2002 at Homewood; released from active Federal service 31 January 2004 and reverted to state control
  • Reorganized and redesignated 16 July 2007 as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 135th Sustainment Command
  • Location changed 1 June 2009 to Birmingham
  • Reorganized and redesignated 1 July 2009 as Headquarters and Special Troops Battalion, 167th Sustainment Command, and location changed to Fort McClellan, Alabama
  • Ordered into active Federal service 29 October 2009 at Fort McClellan, Alabama; released from active Federal service 2 December 2010 and reverted to state control
  • Ordered into active Federal service 10 January 2013 at Fort McClellan, Alabama; released from active Federal service 13 February 2014 and reverted to state control

HOME STATION: Fort McClellan, Alabama

Campaign Participation Credit

  • World War I
  • Champagne – Marne
  • Aisne – Marne
  • Meuse – Argonne
  • St. Mihiel
  • Lorraine 1918
  • Champagne 1918
  • World War II
  • New Guinea (with arrowhead)
  • Southern Philippines
  • War on Terrorism
  • Global War on Terrorism
  • Afghanistan:
  • Consolidation III
  • (additional campaigns to be determined)

Decorations

  • Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), Streamer embroidered AFGHANISTAN 2009-2010
  • Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), Streamer embroidered SOUWTHWEST ASIA 2013
  • Philippine Presidential Unit Citation, Streamer embroidered 17 OCTOBER 1944 TO 4 JULY 1945

By Order of the Secretary of the Army:

CHARLES R. BOWERY, JR.
Chief of Military History


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