Lineage and Honors Information as of 17 July 2017
Headquarters and Headquarters Battalion
38th Infantry Division
(Avengers of Bataan)
- Constituted in July 1917 in the National Guard as Headquarters, 38th Division (to be organized with troops with Indiana, Kentucky, and West Virginia)
- Organized 25 August 1917 at Camp Shelby, Mississippi
- Demobilized 8 March 1919 at Camp Zachary Taylor, Kentucky
- Reorganized and Federally recognized 16 March 1923 in the Indiana National Guard at Indianapolis; Headquarters Detachment, 38th Division, organized and Federally 7 July 1926 at Indianapolis
- Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment, 38th Division, inducted into Federal service 17 January 1941 at Indianapolis
- Reorganized and redesignated 1 March 1942 as Headquarters, 38th Infantry Division
- Inactivated 9 November 1945 at Camp Anza, California
- Reorganized and Federally recognized 5 March 1947 at Indianapolis
- (Headquarters Company [less Military Police Detachment], 38th Infantry Division, organized 1 February 1959 at Indianapolis; reorganized and redesignated 1 March 1963 as Headquarters Company, 38th Infantry Division)
- Reorganized 20 October 1988 in the Indiana and Michigan Army National Guard with Headquarters at Indianapolis, Indiana
- Ordered into active Federal service 2 February 2004 at Indianapolis; released from active Federal service 31 January 2005 and reverted to state control
- Reorganized 1 March 2005 in the Indiana, Kentucky, and Ohio Army National Guard with headquarters at Indianapolis, Indiana
- Ordered into active Federal service 10 July 2009 at Indianapolis; released from active Federal service 13 August 2010 and reverted to state control
- Reorganized 1 September 2011 in the Indiana, Kentucky, and Ohio Army National Guard as Headquarters and Headquarters Battalion, 38th Infantry Division
HOME STATION: Indianapolis (less detachments at Columbus, Ohio, and Louisville, Kentucky)
Campaign Participation Credit
- World War I
- Streamer without inscription
- World War II
- New Guinea
- Leyte
- Luzon (with arrowhead)
- War on Terrorism
- Campaigns to be determined
Decorations
- 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