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Lineage and Honors Information as of 25 May 2011

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HEADQUARTERS AND HEADQUARTERS BATTALION
V CORPS

 

Organized 7-12 July 1918 in the Regular Army in France as Headquarters and Headquarters Troop, V Army Corps

Demobilized 2 May 1919 at Camp Funston, Kansas

Reconstituted 27 June 1944 in the Regular Army as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, V Corps; concurrently consolidated with Headquarters and Headquarters Company, V Corps (active) (see ANNEX), and consolidated unit designated as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, V Corps

Reorganized and redesignated 2 August 1965 as Headquarters, V Corps; Headquarters Company, V Corps, concurrently constituted and activated in Germany

Reorganized and redesignated 16 April 2011 as Headquarters and Headquarters Battalion, V Corps

ANNEX

Constituted 29 July 1921 in the Organized Reserves as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, V Corps

Organized 17 February 1922 at Fort Thomas, Kentucky

Inactivated 15 November 1924 at Fort Thomas, Kentucky

Withdrawn 1 October 1933 from the Organized Reserves and allotted to the Regular Army

Headquarters activated 20 October 1940 at Camp Beauregard, Louisiana

Redesignated 1 January 1941 as Headquarters, V Army Corps

Headquarters Company, V Army Corps, activated 2 February 1941 at Camp Beauregard, Louisiana

Redesignated 19 August 1942 as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, V Corps

 

CAMPAIGN PARTICIPATION CREDIT

                        World War I
                        St. Mihiel
                        Meuse-Argonne
                        Lorraine 1918

                        World War II
                        Normandy (with arrowhead)
                        Northern France
                        Rhineland
                        Ardennes-Alsace
                        Central Europe

                        Kosovo
                        Kosovo Air Campaign

                        War on Terrorism
                        Campaigns to be determined

 

DECORATIONS

Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), Streamer embroidered SOUTHWEST ASIA 2003

Army Superior Unit Award, Streamer embroidered 1995-1996

 

BY ORDER OF THE SECRETARY OF THE ARMY: 

 

 

ROBERT J. DALESSANDRO
Director, Center of Military History


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