Lineage and Honors Information as of 19 May 2017

Headquarters
37th Infantry Brigade Combat Team
(Buckeye)

  • Constituted 18 July 1917 in the Ohio National Guard as Headquarters, 37th Division
  • Organized 26 August 1917 at Camp Sheridan, Alabama
  • Demobilized 23 June 1919 at Camp Sherman, Ohio
  • Reorganized and Federally recognized 31 May 1923 in the Ohio National Guard at Columbus as Headquarters, 37th Division
  • Inducted into Federal service 15 October 1940 at Columbus
  • Redesignated 1 February 1942 as Headquarters, 37th Infantry Division
  • Inactivated 18 December 1945 at Camp Anza, California
  • Reorganized and Federally recognized 11 November 1946 at Columbus
  • Ordered into active Federal service 15 January 1952 at Columbus
  • (Headquarters, 37th Infantry Division [NGUS], organized and Federally recognized 15 January 1954 at Columbus)
  • Released 15 June 1954 from active Federal service and reverted to state control; Federal recognition concurrently withdrawn from Headquarters, 37th Infantry Division (NGUS)
  • Reorganized and redesignated 15 February 1968 as Headquarters, 73d Brigade, 38th Infantry Division
  • Reorganized and redesignated 1 March 1977 as Headquarters, 73d Infantry Brigade and relieved from assignment to the 38th Infantry Division
  • Redesignated 6 September 1992 as Headquarters, 37th Infantry Brigade
  • Reorganized and redesignated 1 September 1993 as Headquarters, 37th Brigade, 28th Infantry Division; location concurrently changed to North Canton
  • Redesignated 1 September 1994 as Headquarters, 37th Brigade, 38th Infantry Division
  • Location changed 1 June 2004 to Columbus
  • Ordered into active Federal service 5 July 2004 at Columbus; released from active Federal service 1 November 2005 and reverted to state control
  • Reorganized and redesignated 1 September 2007 as Headquarters, 37th Infantry Brigade Combat Team and relieved from assignment to the 38th Infantry Division
  • Ordered into active Federal service 2 January 2008 at Columbus; released from active Federal service 4 February 2009 and reverted to state control
  • Ordered into active Federal service 15 October 2011 at Columbus; released from active Federal service 17 November 2012 and reverted to state control
  • Ordered into active Federal service 3 September 2016 at Columbus

HOME STATION: Columbus

Campaign Participation Credit

  • World War I
  • Ypres-Lys
  • Meuse-Argonne
  • Lorraine 1918
  • World War II
  • Northern Solomons
  • Luzon (with arrowhead)
  • Kosovo
  • Kosovo Defense
  • War on Terrorism
  • Global War on Terrorism
  • Afghanistan:
  • Transition I

Decorations

  • Army Superior Unit Award, Streamer embroidered: 2004-2005
  • 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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