Lineage and Honors Information as of 11 December 2007
1166th MILITARY POLICE COMPANY
Organized and Federally recognized 12 April 1928 in the Alabama National Guard at Greensboro as Company B, 167th Infantry, an element of the 31st Division (later redesignated as the 31st Infantry Division)
Inducted into Federal service 25 November 1940 at Greensboro
Inactivated 8-29 December 1945 at Camp Stoneman, California
Reorganized and Federally recognized 15 January 1947 in the Alabama National Guard at Greensboro as the Cannon Company, 167th Infantry
Redesignated 1 November 1948 as the Heavy Mortar Company, 167th Infantry
Ordered into active Federal service 16 January 1951 at Greensboro
(Heavy Mortar Company, 200th Infantry [NGUS] organized and Federally recognized
5 October 1953 at Greensboro)
Heavy Mortar Company, 167th Infantry, released 15 June 1954 from active Federal service and reverted to state control; concurrently reorganized and redesignated as Heavy Mortar Company, 200th Infantry, an element of the 31st Infantry Division (Federal recognition concurrently withdrawn from the Heavy Mortar Company, 200th Infantry [NGUS])
Reorganized and redesignated 2 May 1959 as the Combat Support Company, 1st Battle Group, 200th Infantry
Converted and redesignated 15 April 1963 as Company B, 156th Military Police Battalion, and relieved from assignment to the 31st Infantry Division
Ordered into active Federal service 11 June 1963 at Greensboro; released 16 June 1963 from active Federal service and reverted to state control
Ordered into active Federal service 20 March 1965 at Greensboro; released 28 March 1965 from active Federal service and reverted to state control
Reorganized and redesignated 1 February 1972 as the 1166th Military Police Company
Ordered into active Federal service 7 February 2003 at Greensboro; released 29 May 2004 from active Federal service and reverted to state control
HOME STATION: Greensboro (less detachment at Thomasville)
CAMPAIGN PARTICIPATION CREDIT
World War II
New Guinea (with arrowhead)
Western Pacific (with arrowhead)
Southern Philippines
War on Terrorism
Campaigns to be determined
DECORATIONS
Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), Streamer embroidered IRAQ 2004-2005
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