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Lineage and Honors Information as of 1 August 2011

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37th FINANCE DETACHMENT

 

             Parent unit organized 25 May 1917 in the New York National Guard at New York as Headquarters Troop, New York Division

            Called into Federal service 24 July 1917 at New York; drafted into Federal service
5 August 1917

            Reorganized and redesignated 1 October 1917 as Headquarters Troop, 27th Division

            Demobilized 1 April 1919 at Camp Upton, New York

            Consolidated 15 November 1921 with Company A, 1st Machine Gun Battalion, New York Guard (see Annex 1), and consolidated unit reorganized and Federally recognized in the New York National Guard at New York as Headquarters Company, Special Troops, 27th Division

            Reorganized and redesignated 27 October 1937 as Headquarters Company, 27th Division (later redesignated as the 27th Infantry Division)

            Inducted into Federal service 15 October 1940 at New York

            Reorganized and redesignated 1 September 1942 as Headquarters Company (less Military Police Platoon), 27th Infantry Division

            Inactivated 31 December 1945 at Fort Lawton, Washington

            Consolidated 27 September 1946 with Headquarters Company (less Military Police Platoon), 42d Infantry Division (see ANNEX 2) and consolidated unit designated as Headquarters Company, 42d Infantry Division

            Reorganized and Federally recognized 20 June 1947 in the New York National Guard at New York

            Converted, reorganized, and redesignated 19 May 1959 as the 42d Administration Company and remained assigned to the 42d Infantry Division

            Ordered into active Federal service 24 March 1970 at New York; released from active Federal service 30 March 1970 and reverted to state control

            Redesignated 1 October 1971 as the 42d Adjutant General Company

            Reorganized and redesignated 1 September 1990 as Detachment 1, 42d Adjutant General Company

            Expanded, converted, reorganized, and redesignated 1 October 1993 as the 7th and 37th Finance Detachments (7th Finance Detachment-hereafter separate lineage)

            37th Finance Detachment ordered into active Federal service 10 February 2003 at New York; released from active Federal service 15 January 2005 and reverted to state control

            Ordered into active Federal service 2 August 2009 at New York; released from active Federal service 5 September 2010 and reverted to state control

ANNEX 1

            Organized 29 July 1918 in the New York Guard at New York as the Motor Machine Gun Battery, 1st Field Artillery

            Reorganized and redesignated 23 May 1919 as the 1st Motor Machine Gun Company

            Reorganized and redesignated 3 November 1919 as Company A, 1st Machine Gun Battalion

ANNEX 2

            Constituted 5 February 1943 in the Army of the United States as Headquarters Company (less Military Police Platoon), 42d Infantry Division

            Activated 14 July 1943 at Camp Gruber, Oklahoma

37th Finance detachment

           
            Inactivated 13 July 1946 in Austria

            Allotted 17 September 1946 to the New York National Guard

HOME STATION:  New York

 

CAMPAIGN PARTICIPATION CREDIT

                                                   World War I
                                                   Ypres-Lys
                                                   Somme Offensive

                                                   World War II
                                                   Western Pacific
                                                   Rhineland
                                                   Ardennes-Alsace
                                                   Ryukyus
                                                   Central Europe

                                                   War on Terrorism
                                                   Campaigns to be determined

 

DECORATIONS

None
                                                                                   

BY THE ORDER OF THE SECRETARY OF THE ARMY: 

 

ROBERT J. DALESSANDRO
Director, Center of Military History


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