Lineage and Honors Information as of 20 May 2016
106th Engineer Detachment
- Organized 30 March 1882 in the Wisconsin National Guard at Monroe as the Monroe City Guard
- Redesignated 7 April 1882 as Company H, 1st Battalion of Infantry
- Redesignated 26 April 1882 as Company H, 1st Infantry Regiment
- Mustered into Federal service 14 May 1898 at Milwaukee as Company H, 1st Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry; mustered out of Federal service 19 October 1898 at Monroe
- Reorganized 29 November 1898 at Monroe as Company H, 1st Infantry Regiment
- Called into Federal service 18 June 1916
- Mustered into Federal service 30 June 1916 at Camp Douglas, Wisconsin; mustered out of Federal service 19 January 1917 at Fort Sheridan, Illinois
- Called into Federal service 15 July 1917; mustered into Federal service in July 1917 at Camp Douglas, Wisconsin
- Drafted into Federal service 5 August 1917
- Redesignated 27 September 1917 as Company H, 128th Infantry, an element of the 32d Division
- Demobilized 19 May 1919 at Camp Grant, Illinois
- Reorganized and Federally recognized 2 March 1920 in the Wisconsin National Guard at Monroe as the 9th Separate Company of Infantry
- Redesignated 1 April 1921 as Company K, 128th Infantry, an element of the 32d Division
- Inducted into Federal service 15 October 1940 at Monroe
- (32d Division redesignated 1 February 1942 as the 32d Infantry Division)
- Inactivated 28 February 1946 at Yamaguchi, Japan
- Reorganized and Federally reorganized 22 May 1947 at Monroe
- Reorganized and redesignated 15 February 1959 as Company B, 2d Battle Group, 128th Infantry
- Ordered into active Federal service 15 October 1961 at Monroe; released from active Federal service 10 August 1962 and reverted to state control
- Redesignated 1 April 1963 as Company B, 3d Battalion, 128th Infantry
- Converted and redesignated 30 December 1967 as the 2d and 3d Light Truck Platoons, 1158th Transportation Company, and relieved from assignment to the 32d Infantry Division
- Reorganized and redesignated 1 January 1972 as the 1158th Transportation Company
- Ordered into active Federal service 17 November 1990 at Monroe; released from active Federal service 25 May 1991 and reverted to state control
- Location changed 1 December 1994 to Tomah
- Converted and redesignated 1 September 2008 as the 106th Engineer Detachment
HOME STATION: Tomah
Campaign Participation Credit
- World War I
- Aisne-Marne
- Oise-Aisne
- Meuse-Argonne
- Alsace 1918
- Champagne 1918
- World War II
- Papua
- New Guinea
- Leyte
- Luzon
- Southwest Asia
- Defense of Saudi Arabia
- Liberation and Defense of Kuwait
- Cease Fire
- War on Terrorism
- Global War on Terrorism
Decorations
- Presidential Unit Citation (Army), Streamer embroidered PAPUA
- French Croix de Guerre with Palm, World War I, Streamer embroidered OISE-AISNE
- Philippine Presidential Unit Citation, Streamer embroidered 17 OCTOBER 1944 TO 4 JULY 1945
By Order of the Secretary of the Army:
CHARLES R. BOWERY, JR.
Chief of Military History
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