Lineage and Honors Information as of 2 February 2015
126th Engineer Company
- Organized and Federally recognized 26 April 1929 in the Idaho National Guard at Moscow as Troop K, 116th Cavalry, an element of the 24th Cavalry Division
- Converted and redesignated 12 September 1940 as Battery F, 148th Field Artillery, an element of the 41st Division
- Inducted into Federal service 16 September 1940 at Moscow
- Reorganized and redesignated 17 February 1942 as Battery C, 205th Field Artillery Battalion, an element of the 41st Infantry Division
- Inactivated 31 December 1945 in Japan
- (205th Field Artillery Battalion relieved 17 June 1946 from assignment to the 41st Infantry Division)
- Reorganized and Federally recognized 14 May 1948 at Moscow as Company B, 200th Tank Battalion
- Converted and redesignated 12 September 1949 as Battery B, 148th Field Artillery Battalion
- Ordered into active Federal service 1 May 1951 at Moscow
- (Battery B, 148th Field Artillery Battalion [NGUS], organized and Federally recognized 4 August 1953 at Moscow)
- Released 18 March 1955 from active Federal service and reverted to state control; Federal recognition concurrently withdrawn from Battery B, 148th Field Artillery Battalion (NGUS)
- Reorganized and redesignated 15 March 1956 as Battery B, 148th Armored Field Artillery Battalion
- Reorganized and redesignated 1 July 1959 as Battery B, 1st Howitzer Battalion, 148th Artillery
- Converted and redesignated 1 January 1968 as the 2d Dump Truck Platoon, 129th Engineer Company
- Reorganized and redesignated 1 December 1971 as the 127th Engineer Company
Consolidated 1 February 1977 with the 938th Engineer Platoon (organized and Federally recognized 1 January 1968 at Moscow) and consolidated unit redesignated as Company B, 116th Engineer Battalion
- Ordered into active Federal service 28 June 2004 at Moscow; released from active Federal service 24 December 2005 and reverted to state control
- Reorganized and redesignated 1 September 2006 as the 126th Engineer Company
- HOME STATION: Moscow (less detachments at Grangeville and Orofino)
Campaign Participation Credit
- World War II
- New Guinea (with arrowhead)
- Luzon (with arrowhead)
- Southern Philippines
- 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:
RICHARD W. STEWART, PH.D.
Center of Military History
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