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Lineage and Honors Information as of 11 December 2007

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170th MAINTENANCE COMPANY

 

Constituted 1 March 1953 in the Kansas Army National Guard as the 287th Infantry Battalion

Organized and Federally recognized 8 July 1954 with Headquarters at Norton

Converted and redesignated 16 March 1956 as the 728th Field Artillery Battalion

Battalion broken up 1 May 1959 and its elements reorganized and redesignated as follows:

Headquarters, Headquarters and Service Battery and Medical Detachment consolidated, converted, and redesignated as Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment, 110th Ordnance Battalion

(Remainder of battalion reorganized and redesignated as various elements of the Kansas Army National Guard – hereafter separate lineages)

Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment, 110th Ordnance Battalion, reorganized and redesignated 15 October 1965 as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 110th Ordnance Battalion

Personnel transferred 1 January 1979 to Detachment 1, Command and Control Headquarters, Kansas Army National Guard; transferred 1 June 1980 to Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment, 287th Maintenance Battalion

Reorganized and redesignated 1 September 1991 at Norton as the 170th Maintenance Company

HOME STATION: Norton (less detachments at Goodland, Colby, Russell, and Clay Center)


CAMPAIGN PARTICIPATION CREDIT

None

 

DECORATIONS

None

 

BY ORDER OF THE SECRETARY OF THE ARMY:

 

 

JEFFREY J. CLARKE
Chief of Military History


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