Lineage and Honors Information as of 12 December 2013
HEADQUARTERS AND HEADQUARTERS COMPANY
40th MILITARY POLICE BATTALION
- Constituted 11 June 1945 in the Army of the United States as Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment, 40th Military Police Service Battalion
- Activated 6 July 1945 in China
- Inactivated 31 March 1946 in China
- Activated 16 February 1948 in Korea
- Inactivated 25 January 1949 in Japan
- Activated 1 June 1949 on Okinawa
- Allotted 25 October 1951 to the Regular Army
- Inactivated 19 March 1953 on Okinawa
- Redesignated 30 September 1966 as Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment, 40th Military Police Battalion
- Activated 25 November 1966 at Fort Riley, Kansas
- Inactivated 30 December 1970 in Thailand
- Headquarters transferred 16 September 1986 to the United States Army Training and Doctrine Command and activated at Fort McClellan, Alabama
- Headquarters inactivated 31 December 1990 at Fort McClellan, Alabama, and withdrawn from the United States Army Training and Doctrine Command
- Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 40th Military Police Battalion, activated 16 October 2009 at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas
CAMPAIGN PARTICIPATION CREDIT
- World War II
- Asiatic-Pacific Theater, Streamer
- without inscription
- War on Terrorism
- Iraq:
- New Dawn
DECORATIONS
- Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), Streamer embroidered PACIFIC THEATER
- Army Superior Unit Award, Streamer embroidered 2011-2012
BY ORDER OF THE SECRETARY OF THE ARMY:
ROBERT J. DALESSANDRO
Director, Center of Military History
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