Parent unit constituted 29 August 1917 in the National Guard as Headquarters, 62d Field Artillery Brigade, an element of the 37th Division

Organized 21 September 1917 at Camp Sherman, Ohio, with personnel from the Ohio National Guard

Demobilized 11 April 1919 at Camp Sherman, Ohio

Expanded, reorganized, and Federally recognized in the Ohio National Guard as elements of the 37th Division as follows:

Headquarters, 62d Field Artillery Brigade, 26 July 1922 at Cleveland
(location changed in 1940 to Columbus)
Headquarters Battery, 62d Field Artillery Brigade, 26 April 1922 at
Dayton (hereafter separate lineage)

Headquarters, 62d Field Artillery Brigade, inducted into active Federal service
15 October 1940 at Columbus

Reorganized and redesignated 16 January 1942 as Headquarters, 37th Division Artillery

Inactivated 18 December 1945 at Camp Anza, California

Reorganized, redesignated, and Federally recognized 11 November 1946 at Columbus as Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 37th Division Artillery

Consolidated 17 November 1947 with the 37th Mechanized Cavalry Reconnaissance Troop (see ANNEX) and consolidated unit designated as Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 37th Division Artillery

Ordered into active Federal service 15 January 1952 at Columbus

(Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 37th Division Artillery [NGUS] organized and Federally recognized 15 January 1954 at Columbus)

Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 37th Division Artillery, released from active Federal service 15 June 1954 and reverted to state control; Federal recognition concurrently withdrawn from Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 37th Division Artillery (NGUS)

Redesignated 1 September 1959 as Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 37th Infantry Division Artillery

Converted and redesignated 15 February 1968 as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 16th Engineer Brigade, and relieved from assignment to the 37th Infantry Division

Ordered into active Federal service 10 September 2005 at Columbus; released 8 March 2007 from active Federal service and reverted to state control

ANNEX

Organized and Federally recognized 29 April 1921 in the Ohio National Guard at Columbus as Headquarters Company, 2d Infantry Brigade

Redesignated 1 July 1921 as Headquarters Company, 74th Infantry Brigade, and assigned to the 37th Division

Inducted into active Federal service 15 October 1940 at Columbus

Converted and redesignated 16 January 1942 as the 37th Cavalry Reconnaissance Troop

Reorganized and redesignated 1 June 1944 as the 37th Reconnaissance Troop, Mechanized

Inactivated 13 December 1945 at Camp Stoneman, California

Redesignated 14 August 1946 as the 37th Mechanized Cavalry Reconnaissance Troop

HOME STATION: Columbus

CAMPAIGN PARTICIPATION CREDIT

                                                        World War I
                                                        Lorraine 1918

                                                        World War II
                                                        Northern Solomons
                                                        Luzon (with arrowhead)

                                                        War on Terrorism
                                                        Campaigns to be determined

 

DECORATIONS

Presidential Unit Citation (Army), Streamer embroidered BOUGAINVILLE

Philippine Presidential Unit Citation, Streamer embroidered 17 OCTOBER 1944 TO
4 JULY 1945

 

BY ORDER OF THE SECRETARY OF THE ARMY: