Lineage and Honors Information as of 14 December 2011
2175th MILITARY POLICE COMPANY
Organized 21 February 1896 in the Missouri National Guard at Hannibal as Company F, 4th Regiment
Mustered into Federal service 16 May 1898 at Jefferson Barracks, Missouri, as Company F, 4th Missouri Volunteer Infantry; mustered out of Federal service 10 February 1899 at Camp Wetherill, South Carolina, and reverted to state control as Company F, 4th Infantry
Disbanded 7 March 1900 at Hannibal
Reorganized 8 March 1900 in the Missouri National Guard at Hannibal as a company of an unattached battalion
Reorganized and redesignated 31 March 1900 as Company G, 4th Infantry
Disbanded 9 December 1901 at Hannibal
Reorganized 1 July 1907 in the Missouri National Guard at Hannibal as a detachment of Company F, 4th Infantry
Reorganized and redesignated 5 December 1907 as Company E, 4th Infantry
Mustered into Federal service 26 June 1916 at Nevada, Missouri; mustered out of Federal service 28 February 1917 at Fort Riley, Kansas, and reverted to state control
Drafted into Federal service 5 August 1917
Reorganized and redesignated 1 October 1917 to form part of Company E, 139th Infantry, an element of the 35th Division
Demobilized 9-11 May 1919 at Fort Riley, Kansas
Reorganized and Federally recognized 14 February 1924 in the Missouri National Guard at Hannibal as Company L, 138th Infantry, an element of the 35th Division
Inducted into Federal service 23 December 1940 at Hannibal
(138th Infantry relieved 1 March 1942 from assignment to the 35th Division)
Inactivated 20 July 1944 at Camp Shelby, Mississippi
Converted, reorganized, and Federally recognized 15 November 1947 in the Missouri National Guard at Hannibal as the 35th Military Police Company, an element of the 35th Infantry Division
Consolidated 15 April 1959 with the 35th Replacement Company (organized and Federally recognized 12 October 1955 at Hannibal) and consolidated unit reorganized and redesignated as Company D, 175th Military Police Battalion; concurrently, relieved from assignment to the 35th Infantry Division
Reorganized and redesignated 1 March 1972 as the 2175th Military Police Company
Ordered into active Federal service 26 July 1980 at Hannibal; released from active Federal service 9 August 1980 and reverted to state control
Converted, reorganized, and redesignated 1 September 1995 as Battery A, 1st Battalion, 128th Field Artillery
Reorganized and redesignated 1 September 1999 as Detachment 1, Battery A, 128th Field Artillery
Redesignated 1 April 2000 as Battery B, 1st Battalion, 128th Field Artillery
Redesignated 1 October 2005 as Battery B, 1st Battalion, 128th Field Artillery Regiment
Converted, reorganized, and redesignated 1 September 2006 as the 2175th Military Police Company
Ordered into active Federal service 31 August 2011 at Hannibal
HOME STATION: Hannibal (less detachment at Moberly)
CAMPAIGN PARTICIPATION CREDIT
World War I
Meuse-Argonne
Alsace 1918
Lorraine 1918
World War II
Aleutian Islands
War on Terrorism
Campaigns to be determined
DECORATIONS
None
BY ORDER OF THE SECRETARY OF THE ARMY:
ROBERT J. DALESSANDRO
Director, Center of Military History