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Lineage and Honors Information as of 22 May 2014

361st MILITARY POLICE COMPANY

  • Constituted 30 December 1944 in the Army of the United States as the 361st Military Police Company
  • Activated 31 December 1944 in France
  • Inactivated 27 March 1946 at Camp Kilmer, New Jersey
  • Allotted 9 December 1946 to the Organized Reserves
  • Activated 20 December 1946 at Columbus, Ohio
  • (Organized Reserves redesignated 25 March 1948 as the Organized Reserve Corps; redesignated 9 July 1952 as the Army Reserve)
  • Ordered into active military service 19 September 1950 at Columbus, Ohio; released from active military service 17 January 1955 and reverted to reserve status
  • Location changed 16 May 1955 to Cambridge, Ohio
  • Inactivated 1 May 1959 at Cambridge, Ohio
  • Activated 22 January 1968 at Dover, Ohio
  • Location changed 8 May 1971 to Canton, Ohio; on 25 August 1984 to North Canton, Ohio
  • Ordered into active military service on 6 December 1990 at North Canton, Ohio; released from active military service 4 May 1991 and reverted to reserve status
  • Inactivated 15 December 1991 at North Canton, Ohio
  • Activated 16 September 2010 at Ashley, Pennsylvania
  • Element ordered into active military service 19 August 2013 at Ashley, Pennsylvania

Campaign Participation Credit

  • World War II
  • Rhineland
  • Southwest Asia
  • Defense of Saudi Arabia
  • Liberation and Defense of Kuwait
  • Cease-Fire

Decorations

None

By Order of the Secretary of the Army:

Robert J. Dalessandro
Director, Center of Military History


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