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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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