Lineages and Honors Information
Support / Sustainment

Lineage and Honors Information as of 19 October 2019

Headquarters and Headquarters Company
728th Support Battalion

  • Organized 14 April 1884 in the Pennsylvania National Guard at Lock Haven as Company H, 12th Infantry Regiment
  • Mustered into Federal service 12 May 1898 at Mount Gretna as Company H, 12th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry; mustered out of Federal service 29 October 1898 at Lock Haven
  • Reorganized 19 April 1899 at Lock Haven as Company H, 12th Infantry Regiment
  • Converted and redesignated 1 May 1914 as Troop K, 3d Cavalry Squadron
  • Redesignated 6 July 1914 as Troop K, 1st Cavalry Regiment
  • Mustered into Federal service 6 July 1916 at Philadelphia; mustered out of Federal service 24 January 1917 at Philadelphia
  • Mustered into Federal service 24 July 1917 at Philadelphia; drafted into Federal service 5 August 1917
  • Reorganized and redesignated 12 November 1917 as Troop K, 101st Cavalry, an element of the 28th Division
  • Broken up 28 November 1917 into units in the 108th and 109th Field Artillery and 103d Engineers, elements of the 28th Division; demobilized 17-24 May 1919 at Camp Dix, New Jersey
  • Reorganized and Federally recognized 1 June 1920 in the Pennsylvania National Guard at Lock Haven as Troop K, 1st Cavalry
  • Redesignated 1 June 1921 as Troop F, 103d Cavalry, an element of the 21st Cavalry Division
  • Redesignated 1 August 1929 as Troop K, 103d Cavalry
  • Redesignated 18 June 1939 as Troop B, 103d Cavalry, an element of the 22d Cavalry Division
  • Expanded, converted, and redesignated 23 September 1940 as Headquarters Battery, 1st Battalion, and Headquarters Battery, 2d Battalion, 190th Field Artillery, and relieved from assignment to the 22d Cavalry Division (Headquarters Battery, 2d Battalion, reorganized and redesignated 1 January 1941 as the Service and Ammunition Battery, 1st Battalion, 190th Field Artillery)
  • Headquarters Battery and Service and Ammunition Battery, 1st Battalion, 190th Field Artillery, inducted into Federal service 13 January 1941 at Lock Haven
  • Reorganized and redesignated 1 November 1943 as Headquarters Battery and Service Battery, 190th Field Artillery Battalion
  • Batteries inactivated 10 December 1945 at Camp Patrick Henry, Virginia
  • Consolidated, reorganized, and Federally recognized 22 August 1947 at Lock Haven as the Service Battery, 200th Field Artillery Battalion
  • Ordered into active Federal service 23 January 1951 at Lock Haven
  • Reorganized and redesignated 10 March 1951 as the Service Battery, 200th Armored Field Artillery Battalion
  • Released 8 March 1955 from active Federal service and reverted to state control; concurrently consolidated with the 728th Ordnance Battalion (NGUS) (organized and Federally recognized 25 January 1954 at Lock Haven) and consolidated unit redesignated as the 728th Ordnance Battalion, an element of the 28th Infantry Division
  • Reorganized and redesignated 1 April 1963 as the 728th Maintenance Battalion
  • (Company C allotted 21 January 1968 to the Maryland Army National Guard; Company D allotted 1 February 1968 to the Virginia Army National Guard; Companies C and D reallotted 1 April 1975 to the Pennsylvania Army National Guard)
  • Reorganized and redesignated 1 March 1992 as the 728th Support Battalion
  • Ordered into active Federal service 25 July 2002 at home stations; released from active Federal service 24 July 2003 and reverted to state control
  • Reorganized and redesignated 1 September 2007 as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 728th Support Battalion
  • Ordered into active Federal service 20 August 2011 at Lock Haven
  • Location changed 1 September 2012 to Spring City
  • Released from active Federal service 22 September 2012 and reverted to state control

HOME STATION: Spring City

Campaign Participation Credit

  • World War I
  • Champagne-Marne
  • Aisne-Marne
  • Oisne-Aisne
  • Ypres-Lys
  • Meuse-Argonne
  • Champagne 1918
  • Lorraine 1918
  • 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 SOUTHWEST ASIA 2011-2012

By Order of the Secretary of the Army:

CHARLES R. BOWERY, JR.
Chief of Military History


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