Lineages and Honors Information
Military Police

Lineage and Honors Information as of 5 Jan 2021

428th Military Police Company

  • Constituted 26 December 1942 in the Army of the United States as the 428th Military Police Escort Guard Company
  • Activated 25 January 1943 at Fort Custer, Michigan
  • Inactivated 10 February 1946 in Germany
  • Allotted 26 December 1947 to the Organized Reserves
  • Activated 12 January 1948 at Jackson, Michigan
  • (Organized Reserves redesignated 25 March 1948 as the Organized Reserve Corps; redesignated 9 July 1952 as the Army Reserve)
  • Reorganized and redesignated 15 November 1950 as the 428th Military Police Prisoner of War Processing Company
  • Reorganized and redesignated 10 April 1953 as the 428th Military Police Company
  • Inactivated 17 January 1955 at Jackson, Michigan
  • Activated 31 January 1968 at Benton Harbor, Michigan
  • Inactivated 22 February 1972 at Benton Harbor, Michigan
  • Activated 16 April 1981 at Niles, Michigan
  • Location changed 16 September 1990 to South Bend, Indiana
  • Ordered into active military service 9 October 2001 at South Bend, Indiana; released from active military service 8 October 2002 and reverted to reserve status
  • Element ordered into active military service 4 January 2004 at South Bend, Indiana; released from active military service 14 March 2005 and reverted to reserve status
  • Ordered into active military service 24 August 2012 at South Bend, Indiana; released from active military service 29 July 2013 and reverted to reserve status
  • Elements ordered into active military service 28 April 2017 and 3 July 2017 at South Bend, Indiana; released from active military service 31 March 2018 and 29 June 2018 and reverted to reserve status

Campaign Participation Credit

  • World War II
  • Normandy (with arrowhead)
  • Northern France
  • Rhineland
  • Ardennes-Alsace
  • Central Europe
  • War on Terrorism
  • Campaigns to be determined

Decorations

  • Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), Streamer embroidered IRAQ 2004

By Order of the Secretary of the Army:

CHARLES R. BOWERY, JR.
Chief of Military History

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