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Special Troops Battalion,
116th Brigade Combat Team 29th Infantry Division

  • Organized in June 1858 and November 1859 in the Virginia Militia at Fredericksburg as the Washington Guards and the Fredericksburg Grays, respectively, volunteer companies in the 16th Regiment
  • Assigned in April 1860 to the 2d Battalion, Virginia Volunteers
  • Mustered into Confederate service 1 July 1861 as Companies A and B, 30th Virginia Infantry, respectively
  • Surrendered 9 April 1865 at Appomattox Court House, Virginia, with the Army of Northern Virginia
  • Reorganized 5 July 1880 in the Virginia Volunteers at Fredericksburg as the Washington Guards
  • Redesignated 20 October 1881 as Company G, 3d Regiment of Infantry
  • Disbanded in 1893 at Fredericksburg
  • Reorganized 1 April 1895 in the Virginia Volunteers at Fredericksburg as Company K, 3d Regiment of Infantry
  • Mustered into Federal service 17 May 1898 at Richmond as Company K, 3d Virginia Volunteer Infantry; mustered out of Federal service 5 November 1898 at Richmond
  • Reorganized 29 August 1900 in the Virginia Volunteers at Fredericksburg as the Washington Guards
  • Redesignated 1 October 1900 as Company L, 70th Infantry
  • Redesignated 1 September 1908 as Company L, 1st Infantry
  • Redesignated 4 April 1916 as Company K, 2d Infantry
  • (Virginia Volunteers redesignated 3 June 1916 as the Virginia National Guard)
  • Mustered into Federal service 30 June 1916 at Richmond; mustered out of Federal service 28 February 1917 at Richmond
  • Called into Federal service 30 March 1917 at Richmond; drafted into Federal service 5 August 1917
  • Reorganized and redesignated 4 October 1917 as part of Company K, 116th Infantry, an element of the 29th Division
  • Demobilized 30 May 1919 at Camp Lee, Virginia
  • Consolidated with the 10th Company, Coast Defenses of Chesapeake Bay (see ANNEX), and consolidated unit converted, reorganized, and Federally recognized 29 September 1922 in the Virginia National Guard at Fredericksburg as Headquarters Detachment and Combat Train, 2d Battalion, 111th Field Artillery, an element of the 29th Division
  • Reorganized and redesignated 24 May 1923 as Battery F, 111th Field Artillery
  • Inducted into Federal service 3 February 1941 at Fredericksburg
  • Reorganized and redesignated 12 March 1942 as Battery C, 227th Field Artillery Battalion, an element of the 29th Infantry Division
  • Inactivated 16 January 1946 at Camp Kilmer, New Jersey
  • Relieved 2 July 1946 from assignment to the 29th Infantry Division; concurrently expanded to form the Antitank Company, 176th Infantry, and the 189th Engineer Combat Company
  • After 2 July 1946 the above units underwent changes as follows:
  • Antitank Company, 176th Infantry, reorganized and Federally recognized 24 May 1948 at Fredericksburg
    Reorganized and redesignated 1 December 1948 as the Tank Company, 176th Infantry
    Converted and redesignated 1 June 1959 as Battery D, 2d Automatic Weapons Battalion, 280th Artillery
    Converted and redesignated 22 March 1963 as Troop C, 1st Squadron, 183d Cavalry, an element of the 29th Infantry Division
    Converted and redesignated 1 February 1968 as Company D, 103d Engineer Battalion, an element of the 28th Infantry Division
  • 189th Engineer Combat Company reorganized and Federally recognized 12 November 1948 at Fredericksburg
    Reorganized and redesignated 1 February 1953 as the 189th Engineer Company
    Ordered into active Federal service 15 October 1961 at Fredericksburg; released from active Federal service 7 August 1962 and reverted to state control
    Reorganized and redesignated 1 February 1968 as Company D, 276th Engineer Battalion
  • Company D, 103d Engineer Battalion, and Company D, 276th Engineer Battalion, consolidated 1 April 1975 and consolidated unit reorganized and redesignated as the 237th Engineer Company, an element of the 116th Infantry Brigade
  • Expanded, reorganized, and redesignated 1 July 1985 as the 229th Engineer Battalion and assigned to the 29th Infantry Division
  • Ordered into active Federal service 27 January 2003 at home stations; released from active Federal service 25 January 2005 and reverted to state control
  • Converted and redesignated 1 September 2005 as the Special Troops Battalion, 116th Brigade Combat Team, 29th Infantry Division
  • ANNEX
  • Organized 17 June 1917 in the Virginia National Guard at Fredericksburg as the 3d Company, Coast Artillery Corps
  • Mustered into Federal service 30 July 1917 at Fredericksburg; drafted into Federal service 5 August 1917
  • Reorganized and redesignated 1 February 1918 as the 10th Company, Coast Defenses of Chesapeake Bay
  • Demobilized in August 1919 at Fort Story, Virginia

CAMPAIGN PARTICIPATION CREDIT

  • Civil War (Confederate Service)
  • First Manassas
  • Peninsula
  • Second Manassas
  • Sharpsburg
  • Fredericksburg
  • Cold Harbor
  • Petersburg
  • Appomattox
  • Tennessee 1863
  • Virginia 1863
  • Virginia 1864
  • World War I
  • Meuse - Argonne
  • Alsace 1918
  • World War II
  • Normandy (with arrowhead)
  • Northern France
  • Rhineland
  • Central Europe
  • War on Terrorism
  • Campaigns to be determined

Company A (Fredericksburg), additionally entitled to:

  • War on Terrorism
  • Iraq:
  • National Resolution
  • Iraqi Surge

DECORATIONS

None

BY ORDER OF THE SECRETARY OF THE ARMY:

ROBERT J. DALESSANDRO
Director, Center of Military History


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