Lineage and Honors Information as of 6 November 2015
1229th Transportation Company
- Organized 20 January 1915 in the Maryland National Guard at Crisfield as Company L, 1st Infantry
- Reorganized and Federally recognized 25 July 1917
- Mustered into Federal service 25 July 1917; drafted into Federal service 5 August 1917
- Redesignated 1 October 1917 as Company L, 115th Infantry, an element of the 29th Division
- Demobilized 7 June 1919 at Camp George G. Meade, Maryland
- Reorganized and Federally recognized 26 November 1929 as Company L, 1st Infantry
- Reorganized and redesignated 1 January 1941 as Company L, 115th Infantry, an element of the 29th Division
- Inducted into Federal service 3 February 1941 at Crisfield
- (29th Division redesignated 12 March 1942 as the 29th Infantry Division)
- Inactivated 17 January 1946 at Camp Kilmer, New Jersey
- Reorganized and Federally recognized 17 December 1946 at Crisfield
- Reorganized and redesignated 1 March 1959 as Company A, 2d Battle Group, 115th Infantry
- Reorganized and redesignated 1 March 1963 as the Rifle and Weapon Platoon, Company A, 2d Battalion, 115th Infantry
- Reorganized and redesignated 1 March 1964 as Company A, 2d Battalion, 115th Infantry
- Converted and redesignated 21 January 1968 as the 1229th Transportation Company, and relieved from assignment to the 29th Infantry Division
- Ordered into active Federal service 17 November 1990 at Crisfield; released from active Federal service 29 May 1991 and reverted to state control
- Converted and redesignated 1 September 1993 as Company A, 121st Engineer Battalion
- (Company A, 121st Engineer Battalion disbanded 9 July 1997; remaining personnel transferred to the 1229th Transportation Company, an augmentation carrier authorized at Crisfield)
- 1229th Transportation Company constituted 1 September 1998 in the Maryland Army National Guard
- Organized and Federally recognized 7 February 2002 at Crisfield
- Ordered into active Federal service 11 February 2003 at Crisfield; released from active Federal service 26 June 2004 and reverted to state control
- Consolidated 1 September 2006 with Detachment 1, 1229th Transportation Company (organized and Federally recognized 22 January 2002), and consolidated unit designated as the 1229th Transportation Company; concurrently, location changed to Baltimore
- Ordered into active Federal service 11 July 2013 at Baltimore; released from active Federal service 14 August 2014 and reverted to state control
HOME STATION: Baltimore
Campaign Participation Credit
- World War I
- Meuse-Argonne
- Alsace 1918
- World War II
- Normandy (with arrowhead)
- Northern France
- Rhineland
- Central Europe
- Southwest Asia
- Defense of Saudi Arabia
- Liberation and Defense of Kuwait
- Cease-Fire
- War on Terrorism
- Campaigns to be determined
Decorations
- Presidential Unit Citation (Army), Streamer embroidered ST. LAURENT-SUR-MER
- Army Superior Unit Award, Streamer embroidered 2008-2009
- French Croix de Guerre with Palm, Streamer embroidered BEACHES OF NORMANDY
By Order of the Secretary of the Army:
RICHARD W. STEWART
Chief of Military History
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