Lineage And Honors Information
Lineage and Honors Information as of 12 June 2013
77th Army Band
(The Pride of Fort Sill!)
- Constituted 1 March 1907 in the Regular Army as the 13th Band, Coast Artillery and activated at Fort Du Pont, Delaware
- Reorganized and redesignated 30 June 1924 as the Band Section, Headquarters Battery, 16th Coast Artillery
- Band element withdrawn 15 July 1927 from Headquarters Battery and redesignated as the Band, 16th Coast Artillery
- Reorganized and redesignated 23 May 1944 as the 77th Army Ground Forces Band
- Inactivated 29 November 1946 on Saipan
- Redesignated 15 April 1947 as the 77th Army Band
- Activated 1 May 1947 in the Philippines as the 77th Army Band (Philippine Scouts)
- Inactivated 1 June 1949 in the Philippines
- Activated 1 November 1951 at Fort Huachuca, Arizona, as the 77th Army Band
- Inactivated 8 May 1953 at Fort Huachuca, Arizona
- Activated 24 February 1955 at Fort Sill, Oklahoma
CAMPAIGN PARTICIPATION CREDIT
- World War II
- Central Pacific
- Western Pacific
DECORATIONS
- Army Superior Unit Award, Streamer embroidered 2009-2010
BY ORDER OF THE SECRETARY OF THE ARMY:
ROBERT J. DALESSANDRO
Director, Center of Military History