Lineage and Honors Information as of 18 March 2011
237th SUPPORT BATTALION
(NINTH OHIO)
Organized 18 July 1881 in the Ohio National Guard from existing units as the 9th Battalion of Infantry
Mustered into Federal service 14 May 1898 at Columbus as the 9th Battalion, Ohio Volunteer Infantry; mustered out of Federal service 28 January 1899 at Camp Marion, South Carolina
Reorganized 14 July 1899 in the Ohio National Guard as the 9th Battalion of Infantry
Drafted into Federal service 5 August 1917
Redesignated 1 January 1918 as the 2d Battalion, 372d Infantry
(372d Infantry assigned 5 January 1918 to the 93d Division)
Demobilized 6 March 1919 at Camp Sherman, Ohio
Reorganized 22 September 1924 in the Ohio National Guard as the 1st Separate Battalion, Infantry, with Headquarters at Columbus
Redesignated 1 April 1925 as the 2d Battalion, 372d Infantry
Inducted into Federal service 10 March 1941 at home stations
Inactivated 31 January 1946 at Schofield Barracks, Hawaii
Reorganized and Federally recognized 14 October 1948 in the Ohio Army National Guard as the 372d Infantry Battalion, with Headquarters at Cleveland
Battalion broken up 1 September 1959 and its elements reorganized and redesignated as follows:
Headquarters, Headquarters and Service Company as Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment, 38th Ordnance Battalion
(Companies A and B as the 493d and 494th Ordnance Companies; Company C as the 3582d Transportation Company [part]; and Company D as the 3660th Ordnance Company-hereafter separate lineages)
Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment, 38th Ordnance Battalion, consolidated
1 March 1961 with Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment, 37th Ordnance Battalion (see ANNEX 1), and consolidated unit designated as Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment, 37th Ordnance Battalion
Reorganized and redesignated 15 February 1968 as the 115th Light Maintenance Company
Consolidated 1 May 1968 with Headquarters and Headquarters Troop, 1st Reconnaissance Squadron, 107th Armored Cavalry (see ANNEX 2), and consolidated unit designated as the 115th Light Maintenance Company
Redesignated 1 August 1969 as the 155th Light Maintenance Company
Redesignated 1 February 1972 as the 155th Maintenance Company
Consolidated 1 September 1974 with the 194th Engineer Company (see ANNEX 3) and consolidated unit reorganized and redesignated as the 155th Maintenance Company; concurrently, location changed to Willoughby
Consolidated 1 February 1987 with Detachment 1, 155th Maintenance Company (see ANNEX 4), and consolidated unit designated as the 155th Maintenance Company
Redesignated 1 September 1989 as the 372d Maintenance Company
Consolidated 31 March 1994 with the 214th Maintenance Company (organized and Federally recognized 6 December 1993 at Willoughby) and consolidated unit designated as the 372d Maintenance Company
Consolidated 1 April 1998 with Detachment 1, 372d Maintenance Company (organized 7 December 1993 at Medina) and consolidated unit designated as the 372d Maintenance Company; concurrently, location changed to Cleveland
Ordered into active Federal service 25 January 2003 at Cleveland; released from active Federal service 17 August 2003-24 January 2004 and reverted to state control
Expanded, reorganized, and redesignated 1 September 2007 in the Ohio and Michigan Army National Guard as the 237th Support Battalion, with Headquarters at Cleveland, an element of the 37th Infantry Brigade Combat Team
Ordered into active Federal service 3 January 2008 at home stations; released from active Federal service 9 January 2009 and reverted to state control
ANNEX 1
Constituted 24 March 1942 in the Army of the United States as Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment, 13th Ordnance Battalion
Activated 25 May 1942 at Fort Sam Houston, Texas
Inactivated 13 March 1946 in England
Redesignated 14 August 1946 as Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment, 37th Ordnance Battalion, and allotted to the Ohio National Guard
Organized and Federally recognized 13 November 1947 in the Ohio National Guard at Cleveland
Ordered into active Federal service 19 August 1950 at Cleveland
(Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment, 37th Ordnance Battalion [NGUS], organized and Federally recognized 30 November 1953 at Cleveland)
Released from active Federal service 3 December 1954 and reverted to state control; Federal recognition concurrently withdrawn from Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment, 37th Ordnance Battalion (NGUS)
ANNEX 2
Organized 10 September 1887 in the Ohio National Guard at Cleveland as the 1st Cleveland Troop (constituted 10 October 1877 as an independent Militia company)
Reorganized and redesignated 3 May 1898 as Troop A, 1st Ohio Volunteer Cavalry
Mustered into Federal service 9 May 1898 at Camp Bushnell, Ohio; mustered out of Federal service 22 October 1898 at Cleveland
Reorganized 14 April 1899 in the Ohio National Guard at Cleveland as Troop A (1st Cleveland Troop)
Redesignated 25 July 1910 as Troop A, 1st Cavalry Squadron
Mustered into Federal service 6 July 1916 at Columbus; mustered out of Federal service 28 February 1917 at Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indiana
Reorganized and redesignated 16 April 1917 as Troop A, 1st Cavalry
Converted, reorganized, and redesignated 23 May 1917 as Battery A, 2d Field Artillery
Mustered into Federal service 15 July 1917 at Cleveland
Drafted into Federal service 5 August 1917
Reorganized and redesignated 15 September 1917 as Battery A, 135th Field Artillery, an element of the 37th Division
Demobilized 10 April 1919 at Camp Sherman, Ohio
Reorganized and Federally recognized 25 October 1920 in the Ohio National Guard at Cleveland as Troop A, 1st Cavalry
Redesignated 1 July 1921 as Troop A, 107th Cavalry, an element of the 22d Cavalry Division
Redesignated 1 November 1940 as Troop D, 107th Cavalry (107th Cavalry concurrently relieved from assignment to the 22d Cavalry Division)
Inducted into Federal service 5 March 1941 at Cleveland
Reorganized and redesignated 1 January 1944 as Troop B, 107th Cavalry Reconnaissance Squadron, Mechanized
Inactivated 16 November 1945 at Camp Bowie, Texas
Expanded, reorganized, and Federally recognized 10 November 1947 in the Ohio National Guard at Cleveland as Headquarters and Service Troop and Troop A, 107th Mechanized Cavalry Reconnaissance Squadron (Troop A-hereafter separate lineage)
Headquarters and Service Troop, 107th Mechanized Cavalry Reconnaissance Squadron, reorganized and redesignated 15 September 1949 as Headquarters Company, 1st Battalion, 107th Armored Cavalry
237th SUPPORT BATTALION
(NINTH OHIO)
Reorganized and redesignated 1 September 1959 as Headquarters and Headquarters Troop, 1st Reconnaissance Squadron, 107th Armored Cavalry
ANNEX 3
Organized and Federally recognized 14 November 1947 in the Ohio National Guard at Willoughby as Company C, 112th Engineer Combat Battalion, an element of the 37th Infantry Division
Ordered into active Federal service 15 January 1952 at Willoughby
Redesignated 20 May 1953 as Company C, 112th Engineer Battalion
(Company C, 112th Engineer Battalion [NGUS], organized and Federally recognized 23 February 1954 at Willoughby)
Released from active Federal service 15 June 1954 and reverted to state control; Federal recognition concurrently withdrawn from Company C, 112th Engineer Battalion (NGUS)
Consolidated 15 August 1962 with Battery D, 1st Missile Battalion, 137th Artillery (see ANNEX 5), and consolidated unit designated as Company C, 112th Engineer Battalion
Redesignated 1 April 1963 as Company E, 112th Engineer Battalion
Reorganized and redesignated 15 February 1968 as the 194th Engineer Company and relieved from assignment to the 37th Infantry Division
ANNEX 4
Organized and Federally recognized 19 September 1949 in the Ohio Army National Guard at Cleveland as the Service Company, 107th Armored Cavalry
Reorganized and redesignated 1 September 1959 as Troop C, 1st Squadron, 107th Armored Cavalry
Consolidated 15 February 1968 with Company C, 2d Battalion, 137th Armor (see ANNEX 6), and consolidated unit designated as Troop C, 1st Squadron, 107th Armored Cavalry; location concurrently changed to Chagrin Falls
Converted and redesignated 1 May 1977 as Detachment 1, 155th Maintenance Company
ANNEX 5
Organized and Federally recognized 20 January 1953 in the Ohio Army National Guard at Willoughby as Battery D, 179th Antiaircraft Artillery Battalion
Reorganized and redesignated 1 December 1958 as Battery D, 179th Missile Battalion
Reorganized and redesignated 1 September 1959 as Battery D, 1st Missile Battalion, 137th Artillery
ANNEX 6
Organized and Federally recognized 9 November 1953 in the Ohio Army National Guard at Chagrin Falls as Company G, 107th Armored Cavalry
Consolidated 28 January 1955 with the 3641st Ordnance Company (see ANNEX 7), and consolidated unit designated as Company G, 107th Armored Cavalry
Reorganized and redesignated 12 October 1955 as Company D, 137th Tank Battalion, and assigned to the 37th Infantry Division
Reorganized and redesignated 1 September 1959 as Company D, 1st Medium Tank Battalion, 137th Armor
Reorganized and redesignated 1 April 1963 as Company C, 2d Battalion, 137th Armor
ANNEX 7
Constituted 27 January 1945 in the Army of the United States as the 244th Ordnance Medium Automotive Maintenance Company
Activated 13 February 1945 in France
Inactivated 1 December 1945 in Germany
Redesignated 14 August 1946 as the 3641st Ordnance Medium Automotive Maintenance Company and allotted to the Ohio National Guard
Organized and Federally recognized 4 March 1948 at Chagrin Falls
Ordered into active Federal service 11 September 1950 at Chagrin Falls
Reorganized and redesignated 23 October 1952 as the 3641st Ordnance Company
Released 28 January 1955 from active Federal service and reverted to state control
HOME STATION: Cleveland
CAMPAIGN PARTICIPATION CREDIT
World War I
Meuse-Argonne
Alsace 1918
Lorraine 1918
World War II
Asiatic Pacific Theater,
Streamer without inscription
Northern France
Rhineland
Central Europe
War on Terrorism
Global War on Terrorism
Company A (Cleveland), additionally entitled to:
World War II
Northern Solomons
Luzon
Company E (Lima), additionally entitled to:
World War I
Ypres-Lys
World War II
Northern Solomons
Luzon (with arrowhead)
DECORATIONS
French Croix de Guerre with Palm, World War I, Streamer embroidered MEUSE – ARGONNE
Company A (Cleveland), additionally entitled to:
Presidential Unit Citation (Army), Streamer embroidered MANILA
Company E (Lima), additionally entitled to:
Presidential Unit Citation (Army), Streamer embroidered LUZON
Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), Streamer embroidered BOUGAINVILLE
Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), Streamer embroidered PACIFIC THEATER
Philippine Presidential Unit Citation, Streamer embroidered 17 OCTOBER 1944 TO 4 JULY 1945
BY ORDER OF THE SECRETARY OF THE ARMY:
PETER D. CREAN
COL, LG
Director, Center of Military History