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Lineage and Honors Information as of 7 March 2017

344th Military Police Company

  • Constituted 21 July 1942 in the Army of the United States as the 344th Military Police Escort Guard Company
  • Activated 20 August 1942 at Fort Amador, Canal Zone
  • Inactivated 1 April 1943 at Fort Amador, Canal Zone
  • Allotted 28 April 1947 to the Organized Reserves
  • Activated 15 May 1947 at Hartford, Connecticut
  • (Organized Reserves redesignated 25 March 1948 as the Organized Reserve Corps; redesignated 9 July 1952 as the Army Reserve)
  • Location changed 8 December 1949 to New Haven, Connecticut; on 27 June 1950 to Jewett City Connecticut; on 28 March 1951 to Danbury, Connecticut
  • Reorganized and redesignated 13 March 1953 as the 344th Military Police Company
  • Location changed 10 February 1963 to Hamden, Connecticut; on 30 September 1976 to New Haven, Connecticut
  • Ordered into active military service 15 November 1990 at New Haven, Connecticut; released from active military service 8 May 1991 and reverted to reserve status
  • Ordered into active military service 7 October 2002 at New Haven, Connecticut; released from active military service 6 October 2003 and reverted to reserve status
  • Location changed 30 June 2011 to Middletown, Connecticut
  • Ordered into active military service 23 April 2013 at Middletown, Connecticut; released from active military service 24 May 2014 and reverted to reserve status

Campaign Participation Credit

  • World War II
  • American Theater, Streamer without inscription
  • Southwest Asia
  • Defense of Saudi Arabia
  • Liberation and Defense of Kuwait
  • Cease-Fire
  • War on Terrorism
  • Campaigns to be determined

Decorations

None

By Order of the Secretary of the Army:

CHARLES R. BOWERY, JR.
Chief of Military History


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