Lineage and Honors Information as of 20 Nov 2019

1142d Engineer Company

  • Mustered into the Missouri National Guard 31 October 1899 at West Plains as Company K, 2d Infantry
  • Redesignated 23 January 1908 as Company A, 6th Infantry
  • Redesignated 9 July 1914 as Company D, 2d Infantry
  • Called into Federal service 18 June 1916
  • Mustered into Federal service 28 June 1916 at Nevada; mustered out of Federal service 13 January 1917 at Fort Riley, Kansas
  • Drafted into Federal service 5 August 1917
  • Reorganized and redesignated 1 October 1917 as Company D, 128th Machine Gun Battalion, an element of the 35th Division
  • Redesignated 1 March 1918 as Company D, 130th Machine Gun Battalion, an element of the 35th Division
  • Demobilized 7 May 1919 at Fort Riley, Kansas
  • Reorganized and Federally recognized 16 November 1920 in the Missouri National Guard at West Plains as Company D, 1st Infantry
  • Redesignated 31 March 1921 as Company D, 6th Infantry
  • Redesignated 1 October 1921 as Company D, 140th Infantry, an element of the 35th Division (later redesignated as the 35th Infantry Division)
  • Reorganized and redesignated 1 July 1930 as the Howitzer Company, 140th Infantry
  • Reorganized and redesignated 1 October 1939 as the Antitank Platoon, Headquarters Company, 140th Infantry
  • Reorganized and redesignated 9 December 1940 as the Antitank Company, 140th Infantry
  • Inducted into Federal service 23 December 1940 at West Plains
  • (140th Infantry relieved 27 January 1943 from assignment to the 35th Infantry Division)
  • Inactivated 20 September 1945 at Camp Rucker, Alabama
  • (140th Infantry assigned 20 June 1946 to the 35th Infantry Division)
  • Reorganized and Federally recognized 29 May 1947 at West Plains as Company M, 140th Infantry
  • Reorganized and redesignated 15 April 1959 as the Rifle and Weapons Platoon, Company E, 2d Battle Group, 140th Infantry
  • Converted and redesignated 1 April 1963 as the 202d Engineer Company, and relieved from assignment to the 35th Infantry Division
  • Converted and redesignated 15 January 1968 as the 1138th Military Police Company
  • Ordered into active Federal service 15 November 1990 at West Plains; released from active Federal service 4 May 1991 and reverted to state control
  • Ordered into active Federal service 1 October 2001 at West Plains; released 10 February 2003 and reverted to state control
  • Ordered into active Federal service 10 February 2003 at West Plains, released from active Federal service 9 February 2004 and reverted to state control
  • Ordered into active Federal service 24 June 2009 at West Plains; released from active Federal service 28 July 2010 and reverted to state control
  • Converted and redesignated 31 August 2019 as the 1142d Engineer Company

HOME STATION: West Plains

Campaign Participation Credit

  • World War I
  • Meuse-Argonne
  • Alsace 1918
  • Lorraine 1918
  • Southwest Asia
  • Defense of Saudi Arabia
  • Liberation and Defense of Kuwait
  • Cease-Fire
  • War on Terrorism
  • Campaigns to be determined

Decorations

None

By Order of the Secretary of the Army:

CHARLES R. BOWERY, JR.
Chief of Military History


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