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Lineage and Honors Information as of 7 March 2016

372d Military Police Company

  • Constituted 25 September 1942 in the Army of the United States as the 372d Military Police Escort Guard Company
  • Activated 15 October 1942 at Florence, Arizona
  • Inactivated 14 November 1945 at Camp Myles Standish, Massachusetts
  • Allotted 14 June 1947 to the Organized Reserves
  • Activated 26 June 1947 at Baltimore, Maryland
  • (Organized Reserves redesignated 25 March 1948 as the Organized Reserve Corps; redesignated 9 July 1952 as the Army Reserve)
  • Location changed 17 March 1949 to Cumberland, Maryland; on 20 August 1951 to Lonaconing, Maryland
  • Reorganized and redesignated 15 November 1952 as the 372 Military Police Company
  • Inactivated 15 June 1959 at Lonaconing, Maryland
  • Location changed 30 June 1973 to Cumberland, Maryland
  • Ordered into active military service 27 September 1990 at Cumberland, Maryland; released from active military service 24 May 1991 and reverted to reserve status
  • Ordered into active military service 24 February 2003 at Cumberland, Maryland; released from active military service 10 October 2004 and reverted to reserve status
  • Ordered into active military service 26 April 2010 at Cumberland, Maryland; released from active military service 30 May 2011 and reverted to reserve status

Campaign Participation Credit

  • World War II
  • Naples-Foggia
  • Rome-Arno
  • Southern France (with arrowhead)
  • Rhineland
  • Ardennes-Alsace
  • Central Europe
  • Southwest Asia
  • Defense of Saudi Arabia
  • Liberation and Defense of Kuwait
  • Cease-Fire
  • War on Terrorism
  • Campaigns to be determine

Decorations

None

By Order of the Secretary of the Army:

CHARLES R. BOWERY, JR.
Chief of Military History


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