Lineage And Honors Information
Lineage and Honors Information as of 14 March 2013
Headquarters and Headquarters Battalion,
United States Army Pacific
- Organized 1 July 1945 at Fort Shafter, Hawaii, as Headquarters, United States Army Forces, Middle Pacific
- Discontinued 1 February 1947 and personnel reassigned to Headquarters, Army Ground Forces, Pacific (concurrently organized at Fort Shafter, Hawaii)
- Headquarters, Army Ground Forces, Pacific, redesignated 15 November 1947 as Headquarters, United States Army, Pacific
- Consolidated 1 July 1957 with Headquarters, United States Army Forces in the Far East (organized 27 July 1941 in the Philippines), and consolidated unit designated as Headquarters, United States Army, Pacific
- Discontinued 31 December 1974 and personnel reassigned to Headquarters, United States Army Commander-in-Chief Pacific Support Group (organized 1 January 1975 at Fort Shafter, Hawaii)
- Headquarters, United States Army Commander-in-Chief Pacific Support Group, redesignated 23 March 1979 as Headquarters, United States Army Western Command
- Redesignated 30 August 1990 as Headquarters, United States Army, Pacific
- Discontinued 15 October 2000 and personnel reassigned to Headquarters and Headquarters Company, United States Army, Pacific (constituted 16 October 2000 in the Regular Army and activated at Fort Shafter, Hawaii)
- Headquarters and Headquarters Company, United States Army, Pacific, reorganized and redesignated 16 June 2008 as Main Command Post, Headquarters, United States Army Pacific
- Reorganized and redesignated 16 June 2010 as Headquarters and Headquarters Battalion, United States Army Pacific
CAMPAIGN PARTICIPATION CREDIT
- World War II
- Philippine Islands
- New Guinea
- Leyte
- Luzon
DECORATIONS
- Presidential Unit Citation (Army), Streamer embroidered DEFENSE OF THE PHILIPPINES
- Presidential Unit Citation (Army), Streamer embroidered BATAAN
- Army Superior Unit Award, Streamer embroidered 2004 - 2006
- Philippine Presidential Unit Citation, Streamer embroidered 17 OCTOBER 1944 TO 4 JULY 1945
BY ORDER OF THE SECRETARY OF THE ARMY:
ROBERT J. DALESSANDRO
Director, Center of Military History