Lineages and Honors Information
Signal

Lineage and Honors Information as of 16 August 2019

Headquarters and Headquarters Company
359th Signal Brigade

  • Constituted 10 October 1944 in the Army of the United States as Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment, 3Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 359th Signal Service Battalion
  • Activated 1 November 1944 in Brazil
  • Inactivated 21 October 1945 in Brazil
  • Redesignated 16 September 1955 as Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment, 359th Signal Group, and allotted to the Army Reserve
  • Activated 1 November 1955 at New York, New York
  • Inactivated 1 March 1963 at New York, New York
  • Activated 31 January 1968 at Syracuse, New York
  • Reorganized and redesignated 15 March 1972 as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 359th Signal Group
  • Reorganized and redesignated 16 September 1987 as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 359th Signal Brigade
  • Location changed 18 September 1995 to Fort Gordon, Georgia

Campaign Participation Credit

  • World War II
  • American Theater, Streamer
  • without inscription
  • War on Terrorism
  • Consolidation III

Decorations

  • Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), Streamer embroidered AMERICAN THEATER
  • Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), Streamer embroidered AFGHANISTAN 2010-2011

By Order of the Secretary of the Army:

CHARLES R. BOWERY, JR.
Chief of Military History


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