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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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