Lineage and Honors Information as of 18 October 2019

75th Military Police Company

  • Constituted 24 December 1942 in the Army of the United States as the Military Police Platoon, 75th Infantry Division
  • Activated 15 April 1943 at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri
  • Inactivated 14 November 1945 at Hampton Roads Port of Embarkation, Virginia
  • Redesignated 21 February 1952 as the 75th Military Police Company and allotted to the Organized Reserve Corps
  • Activated 1 March 1952 at Houston, Texas
  • (Organized Reserve Corps redesignated 9 July 1952 as the Army Reserve)
  • Inactivated 24 June 1954 at Houston, Texas
  • Activated 16 September 2019 at Joplin, Missouri

Campaign Participation Credit

  • World War II
  • Rhineland
  • Ardennes-Alsace
  • Central Europe

Decorations

  • Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), Streamer embroidered EUROPEAN THEATER

By Order of the Secretary of the Army:

CHARLES R. BOWERY, JR.
Chief of Military History


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