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Lineage and Honors Information as of 17 April 2006

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HEADQUARTERS AND HEADQUARTERS DETACHMENT
151st CHEMICAL BATTALION

 

Organized and Federally recognized 16 January 1947 in the Alabama Army National Guard at Fort Payne as Company C, 151st Engineer Combat Battalion

Ordered into active Federal service 14 August 1950 at Fort Payne

(Company C, 151st Engineer Combat Battalion [NGUS], organized and Federally recognized 11 December 1952 at Fort Payne; reorganized and redesignated 1 October 1953 as Headquarters and Service Company, 151st Engineer Battalion)

Reorganized and redesignated 1 October 1954 as Company C, 151st Engineer Battalion

Released from active Federal service 21 February 1955; concurrently consolidated with Headquarters and Service Company, 151st Engineer Battalion (NGUS), and consolidated unit designated as Headquarters and Service Company, 151st Engineer Battalion

Consolidated 1 April 1961 with the Medical Detachment, 151st Engineer Battalion (organized and Federally recognized 28 June 1954 at Valley Head) and consolidated unit reorganized and redesignated as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 151st Engineer Battalion

Ordered into active Federal service 11 June 1963 at Fort Payne; released 16 June 1963 from active Federal service and reverted to state control

Ordered into active Federal service 10 September 1963 at Fort Payne; released
12 September 1963 from active Federal service and reverted to state control

Reorganized and redesignated 15 January 1968 as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 151st Engineer Battalion (less detachment at Oneonta)

Reorganized and redesignated 1 September 1993 as Detachment 1, Headquarters Company, 1343d Engineer Battalion

Reorganized and redesignated 1 September 1995 as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 1343d Engineer Battalion (less detachment at Valley Head)

Consolidated 1 October 1997 with Detachment 1, Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 1343d Engineer Battalion (see ANNEX) and consolidated unit reorganized and redesignated as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 1343d Engineer Battalion

Converted and redesignated 1 September 2000 as Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment, 151st Chemical Battalion

                                
ANNEX

Organized and Federally recognized 19 December 1955 in the Alabama Army National Guard at Valley Head as the 145th Quartermaster Company

Converted and redesignated 1 May 1956 as Company A, 151st Engineer Battalion

Reorganized and redesignated 2 May 1959 as Detachment, Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 151st Engineer Battalion

Reorganized and redesignated 1 April 1961 as Detachment, Company A, 151st Engineer Battalion

Location changed 15 April 1963 to Hammondville

Ordered into active Federal service 11 June 1963 at Hammondville; released 16 June 1963 from active Federal service and reverted to state control

Ordered into active Federal service 10 September 1963 at Hammondville; released
12 September 1963 and reverted to state control

Reorganized and redesignated 1 November 1965 as Detachment, Company B, 1343d Engineer Battalion

Reorganized and redesignated 15 January 1968 as Detachment, Company D, 1343d Engineer Battalion

Reorganized and redesignated 1 September 1993 as Detachment, Company A, 1343d Engineer Battalion

Reorganized and redesignated 1 September 1995 as Detachment 1, Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 1343d Engineer Battalion

Home Station: Fort Payne

 

CAMPAIGN PARTICIPATION CREDIT

                                                          Korean War

                                                          First UN Counteroffensive
                                                          CCF Spring Offensive
                                                          UN Summer-Fall Offensive
                                                          Second Korean Winter
                                                          Korea, Summer-Fall 1952
                                                          Third Korean Winter
                                                          Korea, Summer 1953

 

DECORATIONS

Republic of Korea Presidential Unit Citation, Streamer embroidered KOREA 1950-1952

 

BY ORDER OF THE SECRETARY OF THE ARMY:       

 

 

JEFFREY J. CLARKE
Chief of Military History


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