Lineage and Honors Information as of 20 December 2006
151st INFANTRY DETACHMENT
Organized and Federally recognized 9 December 1940 in the Indiana National Guard at Indianapolis as the Antitank Company, 151st Infantry, an element of the 38th Division (later redesignated as the 38th Infantry Division)
Inducted into active Federal service 17 January 1941 at Indianapolis
Inactivated 9 November 1945 at Camp Anza, California
Reorganized and Federally recognized 11 April 1949 at Greenfield as the Tank Company, 151st Infantry
Reorganized and redesignated 1 February 1959 as the Combat Support Company, 1st Battle Group, 151st Infantry
Reorganized and redesignated 1 March 1963 as Company B, 2d Battalion, 151st Infantry
Reorganized and redesignated 1 December 1967 as Company D, 151st Infantry, and relieved from assignment to the 38th Infantry Division
Ordered into active Federal service 13 May 1968 at Greenfield; released from active Federal service 26 November 1969 and reverted to state control
Consolidated 1 April 1971 with Company E, 151st Infantry (organized and Federally recognized 1 December 1967 at Muncie), and consolidated unit designated as Company D, 151st Infantry, at Muncie
Converted and redesignated 1 March 1977 as Troop A, 1st Squadron, 238th Cavalry, an element of the 38th Infantry Division
Reorganized and redesignated 3 October 1986 as the Long Range Surveillance Detachment, 1st Squadron, 238th Cavalry
Converted and redesignated 1 October 1989 as the 151st Infantry Detachment
Location changed 1 September 1990 to Indianapolis; on 1 September 1996 to Darlington
HOME STATION: Darlington
CAMPAIGN PARTICIPATION CREDIT
World War II
New Guinea
Leyte
Luzon (with arrowhead)
Vietnam
Counteroffensive, Phase VI
Tet 69/Counteroffensive
Summer–Fall 1969
Winter–Spring 1970
DECORATIONS
Philippine Presidential Unit Citation, Streamer embroidered 17 OCTOBER 1944 TO
4 JULY 1945
BY ORDER OF THE SECRETARY OF THE ARMY:
JEFFREY J. CLARKE
Chief of Military History