Lineage and Honors Information as of 30 April 2015
1742d Transportation Company
- Organized 12 November 1885 at Brookings as Company G, 2d Regiment, Dakota Militia, Dakota Territory
- (Territory of Dakota divided 22 February 1889 into North Dakota and South
Dakota by an Act of Congress)
- (Organized Militia of South Dakota redesignated 6 March 1893 as the South Dakota National Guard)
- Redesignated 9 September 1893 as Company G, 1st Regiment, South Dakota National Guard
- Mustered out at Brookings by December 1897
- Reorganized 16 May 1898 at Brookings as Company K, 1st Regiment
- Mustered into Federal service 12-19 May 1898 at Brookings as Company K, 1st South Dakota Volunteer Infantry Regiment
- Mustered out of Federal service 5 October 1899 at the Presidio of San Francisco, California
- Reorganized and redesignated 22 August 1908 as Company C, 4th Infantry
- Mustered out at Brookings 24 February 1914
- Reorganized 5 March 1914 at Brookings as Company C, 4th Infantry
- Mustered into Federal service 30 June 1916
- Mustered out of Federal service 3 March 1917 at Fort Crook, Nebraska
- Called into Federal service 15 July 1917 at Brookings; drafted into
Federal service 5 August 1917
- Converted and redesignated 3 October 1917 as Company C, 147th Field Artillery, an element of the 41st Division
- Demobilized 23 May 1919 at Camp Dodge, Iowa
- Reorganized and Federally recognized 5 April 1922 at Brookings as Company E, 136th Engineer Regiment
- Reorganized and redesignated 1 January 1924 as Company B, 109th Engineer Regiment, an element of the 34th Division
- Inducted into Federal service 10 February 1941 at Brookings
- Reorganized and redesignated 1 February 1942 as Company B, 132d Engineer Regiment; concurrently relieved from assignment to the 34th Division
- Reorganized and redesignated 1 August 1942 as Company B, 132d Engineer Combat Regiment
- Reorganized and redesignated 5 April 1943 as Company B, 132d Engineer Combat Battalion
- Inactivated 31 January 1946 at Matsayama, Japan
- Reorganized and Federally recognized 24 September 1946 as Company M, 196th Infantry
- Ordered into active Federal service 1 September 1950 at Brookings
- (Company M, 196th Infantry [NGUS] organized and Federally recognized 1 September 1952 at Brookings)
- Released from active Federal service 10 October 1954 and reverted to state control; concurrently, Federal recognition withdrawn from Company M, 196th Infantry (NGUS)
- Converted and redesignated 15 September 1956 as Company B, 154th Engineer Battalion
- Reorganized and redesignated 21 October 1959 as Company C, 153d Engineer Battalion
- Converted and redesignated 15 April 1963 as the 74lst Transportation Company
- Reorganized and redesignated 8 January 1972 as Detachment 1, 741st Transportation Company
- Consolidated 1 October 1978 with the 741st Transportation Company (see ANNEX1) and consolidated unit designated as the 741st Transportation Company; concurrently, location changed to Clear Lake
Consolidated 1 March 1993 with the 1742d Transportation Company (see ANNEX 2) and consolidated unit designated as the 1742d Transportation Company; concurrently, location changed to Sioux Falls
- Ordered into active Federal service 11 March 2003 at Sioux Falls; released from active Federal service 9 March 2004 and reverted to state control
- Ordered into active Federal service 12 December 2013 at Sioux Falls
- ANNEX 1
- Organized and Federally recognized 12 November 1956 in the South Dakota Army National Guard at Clear Lake as the 741st Transportation Company
- Ordered into active Federal service 15 October 1961 at Clear Lake; released from active Federal service 5 August 1962 and reverted to state control
- Reorganized and redesignated 15 April 1963 as the 2d and 3d Truck Platoons, 740th Transportation Company
- Reorganized and redesignated 15 November 1965 as the 3d Platoon, 741st Transportation Company
- Reorganized and redesignated 8 January 1972 as the 741st Transportation Company
- ANNEX 2
- Organized and federally recognized 29 September 1953 in the South Dakota Army National Guard at Watertown as 200th Engineer Company (NGUS)
- Reorganized and redesignated 10 October 1954 as 200th Engineer Company
- Reorganized and redesignated 15 September 1956 as Company C, 154th Engineer Battalion
- Reorganized and redesignated 21 October 1959 as 1st Engineer Platoon, Company C, 153d Engineer Battalion
- Reorganized and redesignated 15 January 1962 as 2d and 3d Engineer Platoons, Company C, 153d Engineer Battalion
- Reorganized and redesignated 15 April 1963 as Company C, 153d Engineer Battalion
- Converted and redesignated 4 January 1968 as 1742d Transportation Company
- Ordered into active Federal service 17 November 1990 at Watertown; released from active Federal service 26 May 1991 and reverted to state control
- HOME STATION: Sioux Falls (less detachment at Flandreau)
Campaign Participation Credit
- Philippine Insurrection
- Manila
- Malolos
- World War I
- Lorraine 1918
- Alsace
- Aisne-Marne
- Champagne 1918
- Oise-Aisne
- Meuse-Argonne
- World War II
- Western Pacific
- Leyte
- Ryukyus (with arrowhead)
- Southwest Asia
- Liberation and Defense of Kuwait
- Cease Fire
- War on Terrorism
- Campaigns to be determined
Decorations
- Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), Streamer embroidered SOUTHWEST ASIA 1990-1991
- Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), Streamer embroidered SOUTHWEST ASIA 2004
- French Croix de Guerre with Gilt Star, World War I, Streamer embroidered AISNE-MARNE, OISE-AISNE
- Philippine Presidential Unit Citation, Streamer embroidered 17 OCTOBER 1944 TO 4 JULY 1945
By Order of the Secretary of the Army:
Richard W. Stewart, Ph.D.
Chief of Military History
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