Lineages and Honors Information
Military Police
Lineage and Honors Information as of 2 October 2018
Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment
502d Military Police Battalion
- Constituted 29 July 1921 in the Organized Reserves as the 302d Military Police Battalion
- Organized in November 1921 with Headquarters at Plainfield, New Jersey
- (Location of Headquarters moved in 1929 to New York, New York)
- Withdrawn from the Organized Reserves 1 January 1938 and allotted to the Regular Army
- Redesignated 1 June 1940 as the 502d Military Police Battalion
- Activated 15 January 1943 at Camp McCain, Mississippi
- Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment and Medical Detachment disbanded 5 September 1944 in India (Companies A, B, and C reorganized and redesignated as the 698th, 699th, and 700th Military Police Companies, respectively – hereafter separate lineages)
- Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment, 502d Military Police Battalion reconstituted 23 December 1966 in the Regular Army and activated at Fort Carson, Colorado
- Inactivated 15 May 1970 at Fort Carson, Colorado
- Activated 16 March 2012 at Fort Campbell, Kentucky
Campaign Participation Credit
- World War II
- Asiatic-Pacific Theater, Streamer without inscription
- War on Terrorism
- Campaigns to be determined
Decorations
- Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), Streamer embroidered AFGHANISTAN 2014
By Order of the Secretary of the Army:
CHARLES R. BOWERY, JR.
Chief of Military History