Lineage and Honors Information as of 6 February 2019

Headquarters and Headquarters Company
196th Maneuver Enhancement Brigade

  • Organized in 1897 in the South Dakota State Guard at Pierre as Company A, 1st Regiment
  • Mustered into Federal service 12 May 1898 at Sioux Falls as Company A, 1st South Dakota Volunteer Infantry; mustered out of Federal service 5 October 1899 at the Presidio of San Francisco, California
  • Converted and redesignated 28 March 1901 in the South Dakota State Guard at Pierre as Troop B, 1st Squadron, Cavalry
  • (South Dakota State Guard redesignated 17 March 1903 as the South Dakota National Guard)
  • Converted and redesignated 23 November 1908 as Separate Company B (Infantry)
  • Redesignated 18 January 1910 as Company B, 4th Infantry
  • Mustered out of the South Dakota National Guard 6 October 1915 at Pierre
  • Reorganized in 1916 in the South Dakota National Guard at Pierre as Company A, 4th Infantry
  • Mustered into Federal service 30 June 1916 at Pierre; mustered out of Federal service 3 March 1917 at Fort Crook, Nebraska
  • Mustered into Federal service 15 July 1917 at Pierre; drafted into Federal service 5 August 1917
  • Converted and redesignated 2 October 1917 as Battery C, 147th Field Artillery, an element of the 41st Division
  • Demobilized 23 May 1919 at Camp Dodge, Iowa
  • Reorganized and Federally recognized 2 August 1921 in the South Dakota National Guard at Pierre as Battery C, 147th Field Artillery
  • Inducted into Federal service 25 November 1940 at Pierre
  • Reorganized and redesignated 31 December 1943 as Battery C, 260th Field Artillery Battalion
  • Inactivated 10 June 1945 on New Guinea
  • Reorganized and Federally recognized 23 September 1946 at Pierre as Headquarters Company, 196th Infantry
  • Reorganized and redesignated 15 September 1947 as the Service Company, 196th Infantry
  • Ordered into active Federal service 1 September 1950 at Pierre
  • (Service Company, 196th Infantry [NGUS], organized and Federally recognized 1 September 1952 at Pierre)
  • Released from active Federal service 10 October 1954 and reverted to state control; Federal recognition concurrently withdrawn from the Service Company, 196th Infantry (NGUS)
  • Converted and redesignated 15 September 1956 as Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 147th Field Artillery Group
  • Consolidated 21 October 1959 with Battery C, 642d Field Artillery Battalion (see ANNEX), and consolidated unit reorganized and redesignated as Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 147th Artillery Group
  • Redesignated 1 May 1972 as Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 147th Field Artillery Group
  • Redesignated 9 May 1978 as Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 147th Field Artillery Brigade
  • Location changed 1 August 1993 to Sioux Falls
  • Ordered into active Federal service 15 March 2003 at Sioux Falls; released from active Federal service 21 May 2003 and reverted to state control
  • Ordered into active Federal service 27 February 2006 at Sioux Falls; released from active Federal service 25 August 2007 and reverted to state control
  • Converted and redesignated 1 September 2009 as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 196th Maneuver Enhancement Brigade
  • Ordered into active Federal service 7 May 2010 at Sioux Falls; released from active Federal service 20 June 2011 and reverted to state control
  • ANNEX
  • Organized and Federally recognized 2 April 1939 in the South Dakota National Guard at Pierre as Company C, 109th Quartermaster Regiment, an element of the 34th Division
  • Inducted into Federal service 10 February 1941 at Pierre
  • Reorganized and redesignated 1 February 1942 as the Maintenance Platoon, Headquarters Company, 109th Quartermaster Battalion, an element of the 34th Infantry Division; concurrently activated in Italy
  • Inactivated 15 March 1943
  • Consolidated 1 December 1943 with the 34th Quartermaster Company (constituted 28 May 1943 in the Army of the United States and activated in Italy as an element of the 34th Infantry Division) 34th Quartermaster Company
  • Inactivated 3 November 1945 at Camp Patrick Henry, Virginia
  • Former Maintenance Platoon, Headquarters Company, 109th Quartermaster Battalion, reorganized and Federally recognized 31 October 1946 in the South Dakota Army National Guard at Pierre as Battery C, 642d Field Artillery Battalion

HOME STATION: Sioux Falls

Campaign Participation Credit

  • Philippine Insurrection
  • Manila
  • Malolos
  • World War I
  • Aisne-Marne
  • Oise-Aisne
  • Meuse-Argonne
  • Alsace 1918
  • Lorraine 1918
  • Champagne 1918
  • World War II
  • East Indies
  • New Guinea
  • Bismarck Archipelago
  • Tunisia
  • Naples-Foggia
  • Anzio
  • Rome-Arno
  • North Apennines
  • Po Valley
  • War on Terrorism
  • Afghanistan:
  • Consolidation III
  • (Additional campaigns to be determined)

Decorations

  • Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), Streamer embroidered EUROPEAN THEATER
  • French Croix de Guerre with Palm, World War II, Streamer embroidered BELVEDERE

By Order of the Secretary of the Army:

CHARLES R. BOWERY, JR.
Chief of Military History


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