Lineages and Honors Information
Military Police
Lineage and Honors Information as of 6 February 2019
323d Military Police Company
- Parent unit organized 15 July 1911 in the Ohio National Guard at Toledo as Troop D, 1st Cavalry Squadron
- Mustered into Federal service 19 June 1916 at Camp Willis, Ohio; mustered out of Federal service 28 February 1917 at Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indiana
- Expanded 16 April 1917 to form Troops D and M, 1st Regiment, Ohio Cavalry (Troop D - hereafter a separate lineage)
- Converted and redesignated 22 May 1917 as Battery E, 2d Regiment, Ohio Field Artillery
- Called into Federal service 15 July 1917 at Cleveland; drafted into Federal service 5 August 1917
- Reorganized and redesignated 15 September 1917 as Battery E, 135th Field Artillery, an element of the 37th Division
- Demobilized 11 April 1919 at Camp Sherman, Ohio
- Reorganized and Federally recognized 14 May 1921 in the Ohio National Guard at Toledo as Battery F, 1st Field Artillery
- Reorganized and redesignated 1 July 1921 as Battery F, 135th Field Artillery, an element of the 37th Division
- Inducted into Federal service 15 October 1940 at Toledo
- Reorganized and redesignated 1 February 1942 as Battery C, 174th Field Artillery, and relieved from assignment to the 37th Division (37th Division concurrently redesignated as the 37th Infantry Division)
- Reorganized and redesignated 25 February 1943 as Battery C, 174th Field Artillery Battalion
- Inactivated 23 December 1945 at Camp Kilmer, New Jersey
- Expanded, reorganized, and Federally recognized 26 March and 22 October 1947 in the Ohio National Guard at Toledo as Batteries B and C, respectively, 140th Field Artillery Battalion, elements of the 37th Infantry Division (Battery C, 140th Field Artillery Battalion – hereafter separate lineage)
- Battery B, 140th Field Artillery Battalion, ordered into active Federal service 15 January 1952 at Toledo
- (Battery B, 140th Field Artillery Battalion [NGUS], organized and Federally recognized 15 January 1954 at Toledo)
- Released from active Federal service 15 June 1954 and reverted to state control; Federal recognition concurrently withdrawn from Battery B, 140th Field Artillery Battalion (NGUS)
- Reorganized and redesignated 1 September 1959 as Battery B, 2d Howitzer Battalion, 135th Artillery, an element of the 37th Infantry Division
- Consolidated 1 April 1963 with the 137th Military Police Company (organized and Federally recognized 29 April 1952 at Toledo); consolidated unit designated as the 37th Military Police Company, an element of the 37th Infantry Division
- Reorganized and redesignated 15 February 1968 as the 583d Military Police Company and relieved from assignment to the 37th Infantry Division
- Reorganized and redesignated 1 February 1972 as the 833d Military Police Company
- Consolidated 1 May 1977 with the 585th Military Police Company (see ANNEX); consolidated unit designated as the 323d Military Police Company
- Ordered into active Federal service 6 December 1990 at Toledo; released from active Federal service 29 June 1991 and reverted to state control
- Location changed 1 July 1996 to Walbridge; on 1 April 1998 to Toledo
- Ordered into active Federal service 9 October 2001 at Toledo; released from active Federal service 8 October 2002 and reverted to state control
- Ordered into active Federal service 24 January 2003 at Toledo; released from active Federal service 23 January 2004 and reverted to state control
- Ordered into active Federal service 23 June 2012 at Toledo; released from active Federal service 27 July 2013 and reverted to state control
- Ordered into active Federal service 12 November 2016 at Toledo; released from active Federal service 9 November 2017 and reverted to state control
- ANNEX
- Organized and Federally recognized 23 March 1921 in the Ohio National Guard at Toledo as Service Company, 2d Infantry
- Reorganized and redesignated 1 July 1921 as Service Company, 148th Infantry, an element of the 37th Division (later redesignated as the 37th Infantry Division)
- Inducted into Federal service 15 October 1940 at Toledo
- Inactivated 5 December 1945 at Camp Anza, California
- Expanded as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 1st Battalion, 148th Infantry, and Company A, 148th Infantry, elements of the 37th Infantry Division; Company A Federally recognized 1 July 1948 at Toledo (Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 1st Battalion, 148th Infantry Federally recognized 23 January 1947 – hereafter separate lineage)
- Company A, 148th Infantry, ordered into active Federal service 15 January 1952 at Toledo
- (Company A, 148th Infantry [NGUS], organized and Federally recognized 15 January 1954)
- (Federal recognition withdrawn 14 May 1954 from Company A, 148th Infantry [NGUS]; concurrently Company D, 148th Infantry [NGUS] organized and Federally recognized 15 May 1954 at Toledo)
- Released from active Federal service 15 June 1954 and reverted to state control; Federal recognition concurrently withdrawn from Company D, 148th Infantry (NGUS)
- Reorganized and redesignated 1 September 1959 as 1st Rifle and Weapons Platoon, Company D, 1st Battle Group, 148th Infantry
- Reorganized and redesignated 1 February 1960 as 2d Rifle and Weapons Platoon, Company D, 1st Battle Group, 148th Infantry
- Reorganized and redesignated 1 April 1963 as Company A, 1st Battalion, 148th Infantry
- Converted and redesignated 15 February 1968 as the 585th Military Police Company and relieved from assignment to the 37th Infantry Division
HOME STATION: Toledo
Campaign Participation Credit
- World War I
- Lorraine 1918
- World War II
- Northern Solomons
- Luzon (with arrowhead)
- Normandy
- Northern France
- Rhineland
- Ardennes-Alsace
- Central Europe
- War on Terrorism
- Global War on Terrorism
- Iraq:
- Liberation of Iraq
- Transition of Iraq
Decorations
- Presidential Unit Citation (Army), Streamer embroidered LUZON
- Valorous Unit Award, Streamer embroidered IRAQ 2003
- Army Superior Unit Award, Streamer embroidered 2001 - 2002
- 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