Lineage And Honors Information
Lineage and Honors Information as of 5 May 2016
155th Medical Detachment
(Blood Knights)
- Constituted 7 October 1944 in the Army of the United States as the 155th Medical Service Detachment
- Activated 22 November 1944 in England
- Inactivated 18 September 1945 in England
- Redesignated 27 September 1951 as the 155th Preventive Medicine Control
Detachment and allotted to the Regular Army - Activated 16 November 1951 in Korea
- Reorganized and redesignated 25 January 1953 as the 155th Medical Detachment
- Inactivated 20 December 1954 in Korea
- Activated 22 October 1962 at Washington, DC
- Inactivated 1 December 1969 in Vietnam
- Activated 21 September 1972 at Fort Bragg, North Carolina
Campaign Participation Credit
- World War II
- European-African-Middle Eastern Theater,
- Streamer without inscription
- Korean War
- UN Summer-Fall Offensive
- Second Korean Winter
- Korea, Summer-Fall 1952
- Third Korean Winter
- Korea, Summer 1953
- Vietnam
- Defense
- Counteroffensive
- Counteroffensive, Phase II
- Counteroffensive, Phase III
- Tet Counteroffensive
- Counteroffensive, Phase IV
- Counteroffensive, Phase V
- Counteroffensive, Phase VI
- Tet 69/Counteroffensive
- Summer-Fall 1969
- Winter-Spring 1970
- Armed Forces Expeditions
- Grenada
- War on Terrorism
- Iraq:
- Iraqi Governance
- Iraqi Surge
- Iraqi Sovereignty
Decorations
- Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), Streamer embroidered KOREA 1951-1952
- Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), Streamer embroidered KOREA 1953
- Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), Streamer embroidered VIETNAM 1967-1968
- Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), Streamer embroidered VIETNAM 1968-1969
- Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), Streamer embroidered IRAQ 2004-2005
- Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), Streamer embroidered IRAQ 2007-2009
By Order of the Secretary of the Army:
CHARLES R. BOWERY, JR.
Chief of Military History