Lineage and Honors Information as of 6 May 2015
169th Military Police Company
- Organized and chartered in January 1755 in the Rhode Island Militia at Westerly as the Artillery Company of Westerly and Charlestown
- Redesignated in May 1758 as the Artillery Company of Westerly, Charlestown, and Hopkinton
- Redesignated in October 1812 as the Washington Guards, a company of the 3d Regiment
- Mustered into Federal service 25 July 1814 as Captain Coe's Company, Wood's State Corps, at Fort Adams, Rhode Island; mustered out of Federal service 23 February 1815 at Fort Adams, Rhode Island
- Redesignated 13 August 1855 as the Westerly Rifle Company, a separate company
- While remaining in state service during the Civil War, the Westerly Rifle Company additionally formed the following units:
- Company I, 1st Rhode Island Volunteer Infantry Regiment, mustered into Federal service 2 May 1861 at Providence; mustered out of Federaal service 2 August 1861 at Providence
Company B, 9th Rhode Island Volunteer Infantry Regiment mustered into Federal service 26 May 1862 at Providence; mustered out of Federal service 2 September 1862 at Providence
- Expanded in January 1873 to form the Battalion of the Westerly Rifles
- Redesignated 1 May 1875 as Companies A and B, 3d Battalion of Infantry
- Redesignated 16 November 1881 as Companies F and E, 1st Battalion of Infantry, respectively
- Redesignated 1 June 1887 as Companies F and E, 1st Regiment of Infantry, respectively (Rhode Island Militia concurrently redesignated as the Brigade of Rhode Island Militia)
- Companies F and E, 1st Regiment of Infantry, consolidated 6 April 1895 to form Company E, 1st Regiment of Infantry
- While remaining in state service Company E, 1st Regiment of Infantry, additionally formed Company K, 1st Rhode Island Volunteer Infantry; mustered into Federal service
18 May 1898 at Quonset Point and mustered out of Federal service 30 March 1899 at Columbia, South Carolina
- (Brigade of Rhode Island Militia redesignated 15 April 1907 as the Rhode Island National Guard)
- Converted and redesignated 4 November 1908 as the 5th Company, 1st Artillery District, Coast Artillery Corps
- Redesignated 3 September 1914 as the 5th Company, 1st Coast Defense Command, Coast Artillery Corps
- Redesignated 18 December 1914 as the 5th Company, 1st Coast Artillery District, Coast Artillery Corps
- Redesignated 2 January 1917 as the 5th Company, Rhode Island Coast Artillery
- Mustered into Federal service 2 April 1917 at Westerly; drafted into Federal service
5 August 1917
- Redesignated 31 August 1917 as the 19th Company, Coast Defenses of Narragansett Bay
- Demobilizated 20 December 1918 at Fort Getty, Rhode Island
- Reconstituted 28 May 1921 in the Rhode Island National Guard as the 5th Company, Coast Artillery Corps
- Reorganized and Federally recognized 3 June 1921 at Westerly
- Reorganized and redesignated 31 January 1922 as the 349th Company, Coast Artillery Corps
- Reorganized and redesignated 1 October 1923 as Battery E, 243d Artillery (Coast Artillery Corps)
- Reorganized and redesignated 11 July 1924 as Battery E, 243d Coast Artillery
- Inducted into Federal service 16 September 1940 at Westerly
- Reorganized and reesignated 7 October 1944 as Battery A, 189th Coast Artillery Battalion
- Inactivated 1 April 1945 at Fort Wetherill, Rhode Island
- Redesignated 2 July 1946 as Battery D, 705th Antiaircraft Artillery Gun Battalion
- Reorganized and Federally recognized 23 April 1947 at Westerly
- Ordered into active Federal service 14 August 1950 at Westerly; released from active Federal service 13 July 1952 and reverted to state control
- Reorganized and redesignated 1 October 1953 as Battery D, 705th Antiaircraft Artillery Battalion
- Reorganized and redesignated 1 April 1959 as Battery D, 1st Automatic Weapons Battalion, 243d Artillery
- Converted and redesignated 1 May 1962 as Company C, 243d Engineer Battalion
- Converted and redesignated 1 January 1968 as the 169th Military Police Company
- Location changed 14 April 1995 to Warren
- Consolidated 20 April 1995 with Detachment 1, 169th Military Police Company at Middletown (see ANNEX 1) and consolidated unit designated as the 169th Military Police Company
- Ordered into active Federal service 3 August 2003 at Warren; released from active Federal service 1 August 2004 and reverted to state control
- Ordered into active Federal service 1 July 2007 at Warren; released from active Federal service 3 August 2008 and reverted to state control
- Consolidated 15 November 2008 with the 119th Military Police Company (see ANNEX 2), and consolidated unit designated as the 169th Military Police Company
- Ordered into active Federal service 7 August 2012 at Warren; released from active Federal service 10 September 2013 and reverted to state control
- ANNEX 1
- Organized and Federally recognized 7 May 1929 in the Rhode Island National Guard at Newport as Company F, 118th Engineers, an element of the 43d Division
- Inducted into Federal service 24 February 1941 at Newport
- Reorganized and redesignated 19 February 1942 as Company F, 177th Engineers; concurrently, relieved from assignment to the 43d Division
- Reorganized and redesignated 1 August 1942 as Company F, 177th Engineer General Service Regiment
- Disbanded 14 November 1944 at Anchorage, Alaska Territory
- Reconstituted 8 May 1945 in the Rhode Island National Guard
- Converted and redesignated 2 July 1946 as Battery B, Antiaircraft Artillery Automatic Weapons Battalion
- Reorganized and Federally recognized 14 April 1947 at Newport
- Reorganized and redesignated 1 August 1951 as Battery B, 243d Antiaircraft Artillery Gun Battalion
- Redesignated 1 October 1953 as Battery B, 243d Antiaircraft Artillery Battalion
- Reorganized and redesignated 1 October 1958 as Battery A, 705th Antiaircraft Artillery Battalion
- Reorganized and redesignated 1 April 1959 as Battery A, 1st Automatic Weapons Battalion, 243d Artillery
- Converted and redesignated 1 May 1962 as Company A, 243d Engineer Battalion
- Converted and redesignated 1 February 1968 as Company A, 118th Military Police Battalion
- Reorganized and redesignated 1 March 1972 as the 1111th Military Police Company
- Location changed 1 December 1983 to Bristol
- Location changed 1 December 1987 to Middletown
- Reorganized and redesignated 1 July 1990 as Detachment 1, 169th Military Police Company
- ANNEX 2
- Constituted 1 March 1949 in the Rhode Island Army National Guard as Company D, 118th Engineer Combat Battalion, an element of the 43d Infantry Division
- Organized and Federally recognized 20 April 1949 at Warren
- Ordered into Federal service 5 September 1950 at Warren
- (Company D, 118th Engineer Combat Battaliion [NGUS] organized and Federally recognized 15 October 1952 at Warren; reorganized and redesignated 1 April 1953 as Company D, 118th Engineer Battalion [NGUS])
- Reorganized and redesignated 5 June 1953 as Company D, 118th Engineer Battalion
- Released 15 June 1954 from active Federal service and reverted to state control; concurrently, Federal recognition withdrawn from Company D, 118th Engineer Battalion (NGUS)
- Consolidated 18 March 1963 with Company E, 118th Engineer Battalion (organized and Federally recognized 1 April 1959 at Providence) and consolidated unit redesignated as Company C, 118th Engineer Battalion; concurrently, relieved from assignment to the 43d Infantry Division
- Converted and redesignated 1 May 1968 as Company C, 118th Military Police Battalion; location concurrently changed to Providence
- Reorganized and redesignated 1 March 1972 as the 119th Military Police Company
- Location changed 1 March 1989 to Warwick
- Ordered into Federal service 6 January 1991 at Warwick; released 6 May 1991 from active Federal service and reverted to state control
- Ordered into Federal service 3 August 2000 at Warwick; released 11 April 2001 from active Federal service and reverted to state control
- Ordered into Federal service 7 February 2003 at Warwick; released 1 June 2004 from active Federal service and reverted to state control
HOME STATION: Warren
Campaign Participation Credit
- Revolutionary War
- Rhode Island 1777
- Rhode Island 1778
- War of 1812
- Streamer without inscription
- Civil War
- Bull Run
- World War II
- Aleutian Islands
- Southwest Asia
- Liberation and Defense of Kuwait
- Cease Fire
- War on Terrorism
- Iraq:
- Iraqi Surge
- Liberation of Iraq
- Transition of Iraq
- (additional campaigns to be determined)
Decorations
- Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), Streamer embroidered IRAQ 2007-2008
By Order of the Secretary of the Army:
RICHARD W. STEWART, Ph.D.
Chief of Military History
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