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201st Support Battalion

Lineage and Honors Information as of 12 July 2007

201st Support Battalion Lineage

Constituted 17 December 1917 in the Regular Army as the 8th Sanitary Train and assigned to the 8th Division

Organized 23 January 1918 at Camp Fremont, California

Demobilized 15 February 1919 at Camp Lee, Virginia

Reconstituted 2 October 1939 in the Regular Army as the 8th Medical Battalion

Activated 23 October 1939 at Fort Hoyle, Maryland

Redesignated 1 July 1940 as the 1st Medical Battalion; concurrently relieved from assignment to the 8th Division and assigned to the 1st Division (later redesignated as the 1st Infantry Division)

Inactivated 15 May 1985 at Fort Riley, Kansas

Converted and redesignated 1 May 1987 as the 201st Support Battalion and activated at Fort Riley, Kansas, as an element of the 1st Infantry Division

201st Support Battalion Honors

Campaign Participation Credit

World War II: Algeria-French Morocco (with arrowhead); Tunisia; Sicily (with arrowhead); Normandy (with arrowhead); Northern France; Rhineland; Ardennes-Alsace; Central Europe

Vietnam: Defense; Counteroffensive; Counteroffensive, Phase II; Counteroffensive, Phase III; Tet Counteroffensive; Counteroffensive, Phase IV; Counteroffensive, Phase V; Counteroffensive, Phase VI; Tet 69/Counteroffensive; Summer-Fall 1969; Winter-Spring 1970

Southwest Asia: Defense of Saudi Arabia; Liberation and Defense of Kuwait; Cease-Fire

War on Terrorism: Iraq

Decorations

Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), Streamer embroidered VIETNAM 1966-1967

Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), Streamer embroidered VIETNAM 1967-1968

Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), Streamer embroidered VIETNAM 1968

Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), Streamer embroidered SOUTHWEST ASIA 1990-1991

Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), Streamer embroidered IRAQ 2004-2005

Army Superior Unit Award, Streamer embroidered 1997

French Croix de Guerre with Palm, World War II, Streamer embroidered KASSERINE

French Croix de Guerre with Palm, World War II, Streamer embroidered NORMANDY

French Croix de Guerre with Palm, World War II, Fourragere

Belgian Fourragere 1940

Cited in the Order of the Day of the Belgian Army for action at Mons

Cited in the Order of the Day of the Belgian Army for action at Eupen-Malmedy

Republic of Vietnam Cross of Gallantry with Palm, Streamer embroidered VIETNAM 1965-1968

Republic of Vietnam Civil Action Honor Medal, First Class, Streamer embroidered 1965-1970

Company C additionally entitled to:

Army Superior Unit Award, Streamer embroidered 1996


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