3d Military Police Company
Lineage and Honors Information as of 19 December 2000
3d Military Police Company Lineage
Constituted 12 November 1917 in the Regular Army as the 3d Train Headquarters and Military Police, 3d Division
Organized 8 January 1918 at Chickamauga Park, Georgia
Consolidated 14 May 1921 with Headquarters Troop, 3d Division and redesignated as Headquarters and Military Police Company, 3d Division
Reorganized and redesignated 1 June 1942 as the Military Police Platoon, 3d Division, and Headquarters Company, 3d Division (hereafter separate lineage)
(3d Division redesignated 1 August 1942 as the 3d Infantry Division)
Reorganized and redesignated 23 March 1946 as the 3d Military Police Company
Inactivated 1 July 1957 at Fort Benning, Georgia, and relieved from assignment to the 3d Infantry Division
Assigned 18 April 1963 to the 3d Infantry Division
Activated 22 July 1963 in Germany
3d Military Police Company Honors
Campaign Participation Credit
World War I: Aisne; Champagne-Marne; Aisne-Marne; St. Mihiel; Meuse-Argonne; Champagne 1918
World War II - EAME: Tunisia; Sicily (with arrowhead); Naples-Foggia; Anzio (with arrowhead); Rome-Arno; Southern France (with arrowhead); Rhineland; Ardennes-Alsace; Central Europe
Korean War: CCF Intervention; First UN Counteroffensive; CCF Spring Offensive; UN Summer-Fall Offensive; Second Korean Winter; Korea, Summer-Fall 1952; Third Korean Winter; Korea, Summer 1953
Decorations
Presidential Unit Citation (Army) for COLMAR
Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army) for ITALY 1944
Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army) for KOREA 1950-1951
Army Superior Unit Award for 1993-1994
French Croix de Guerre with Palm, World War II for COLMAR
French Croix de Guerre, World War II, Fourragere
Republic of Korea Presidential Unit Citation for UIJONGBU CORRIDOR
Republic of Korea Presidential Unit Citation for IRON TRIANGLE
Chryssoun Aristion Andrias (Bravery Gold Medal of Greece) for KOREA