Lineages and Honors Information
Support / Sustainment
Lineage and Honors Information as of 11 September 2019
Headquarters and Headquarters Company
42d Support Group
- Organized 22 February 1917 in the New Jersey National Guard at Newark as the Supply Company, 1st Infantry
- Drafted into Federal service 5 August 1917
- Reorganized and redesignated 11 October 1917 as the Supply Company, 113th Infantry, an element of the 29th Division
- Demobilized 27 May 1919 at Camp Dix, New Jersey
- Reorganized and Federally recognized 30 June 1919 in the New Jersey National Guard at Newark as the Supply Company, 6th Infantry
- Reorganized and redesignated 1 March 1921 as the Service Company, 6th Infantry
- Redesignated 17 June 1921 as the Service Company, 113th Infantry, an element of the 44th Division
- Inducted into Federal service 16 September 1940 at Newark
- (113th Infantry relieved 20 February 1942 from assignment to the 44th Division)
- Inactivated 25 September 1945 at Camp Rucker, Alabama
- Converted and redesignated 1 August 1946 as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 50th Armored Division Trains
- Reorganized and Federally recognized 28 October 1946 at Newark
- Consolidated 31 January 1963 with the 50th Armored Division Band (organized in 1920) and consolidated unit reorganized and redesignated as Headquarters, Headquarters and Band, 50th Armored Division Support Command
- Reorganized and redesignated 1 March 1964 as Headquarters, Headquarters Company and Band, 50th Armored Division Support Command
- Reorganized and redesignated 1 December 1971 as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 50th Armored Division Support Command (50th Armored Division Band concurrently withdrawn - hereafter separate lineage)
- Location changed 1 September 1980 to East Orange
- Reorganized and redesignated 1 September 1993 as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 42d Infantry Division Support Command
- Location changed 1 February 1994 to Somerset
- Reorganized 1 September 2006 in the New Jersey, Massachusetts, and New York Army National Guard and concurrently redesignated as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 42d Support Group
- Reorganized 31 August 2018 in the New Jersey, New York, and Vermont Army National Guard as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 42d Support Group
HOME STATION: Somerset (less detachments at Troy, New York, and Northfield, Vermont)
Campaign Participation Credit
- World War I
- Meuse-Argonne
- Alsace 1918
- World War II
- Normandy
- Northern France
- Rhineland
- Ardennes-Alsace
- Central Europe
- War on Terrorism
- Campaigns to be determined
Decorations
- Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), Streamer embroidered IRAQ 2004-2005
By Order of the Secretary of the Army:
CHARLES R. BOWERY, JR.
Chief of Military History