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Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 50th Armored Division Support Command (50th Armored Division Band concurrently withdrawn - hereafter separate lineage)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


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