Lineage and Honors Information as of 19 October 2019

Headquarters and Headquarters Company
55th Maneuver Enhancement Brigade

  • Organized 29 July 1898 in the Pennsylvania National Guard at Scranton as Company K, 11th Provisional Infantry Regiment
  • Redesignated 8 August 1899 as Company K, 13th Infantry Regiment
  • Mustered into Federal service 26 September 1916 at Mount Gretna; drafted into Federal service 5 August 1917
  • Consolidated 11 October 1917 with Company K, 1st Infantry Regiment (organized in 1876), and consolidated unit reorganized and redesignated as Company K, 109th Infantry, an element of the 28th Division
  • Demobilized 20 May 1919 at Camp Dix, New Jersey
  • Former Company K, 13th Infantry Regiment, reorganized 6 July 1920 in the Pennsylvania National Guard at Scranton as Company K, 13th Infantry; Federally recognized 20 July 1920
  • Redesignated 1 April 1921 as Company B, 109th Infantry, an element of the 28th Division (redesignated 17 February 1942 as the 28th Infantry Division)
  • Inducted into Federal service 17 February 1941 at Scranton
  • Inactivated 22 October 1945 at Camp Shelby, Mississippi
  • Reorganized and Federally recognized 17 December 1946 at Scranton
  • Ordered into active Federal service 5 September 1950 at Scranton
  • (Company B, 109th Infantry [NGUS], organized and Federally recognized 13 July 1953 at Scranton)
  • Released 15 June 1954 from active Federal service and reverted to state control; Federal recognition concurrently withdrawn from Company B, 109th Infantry (NGUS)
  • Reorganized and redesignated 1 June 1959 as Company B, 1st Battle Group, 109th Infantry
  • Reorganized and redesignated 1 April 1963 as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 3d Brigade, 28th Infantry Division
  • Redesignated 17 February 1968 as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 55th Brigade, 28th Infantry Division
  • Ordered into active Federal service 25 June 2002 at Scranton; released from active Federal service 24 June 2003 and reverted to state control1
  • Reorganized and redesignated 1 September 2007 as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 55th Brigade Combat Team, 28th Infantry Division
  • Elements ordered into active Federal service 6-9 October 2012 at Scranton, released from active Federal service 9-12 November 2013 and reverted to state control
  • Converted and redesignated 1 September 2016 as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 55th Maneuver Enhancement Brigade, and relieved from assignment to the 28th Infantry Division2

HOME STATION: Scranton

Campaign Participation Credit

  • World War I
  • Champagne-Marne
  • Aisne-Marne
  • Oise-Aisne
  • Meuse-Argonne
  • Champagne 1918
  • Lorraine 1918
  • World War II
  • Normandy
  • Northern France
  • Rhineland
  • Ardennes-Alsace
  • Central Europe
  • War on Terrorism
  • Campaigns to be determined

Decorations

  • French Croix de Guerre with Palm, Streamer embroidered COLMAR
  • Luxembourg Croix de Guerre, Streamer embroidered LUXEMBOURG

By Order of the Secretary of the Army:

CHARLES R. BOWERY, JR.
Chief of Military History


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