Lineage And Honors Information
Lineage and Honors Information as of 23 October 2013
47th SUPPORT BATTALION
(ONE OF THE ORIGINALS)
- Constituted 7 January 1939 in the Regular Army as the 4th Medical Squadron and assigned to the 7th Cavalry Brigade
- Activated 1 February 1939 at Fort Knox, Kentucky
- Headquarters reorganized and redesignated 1 April 1940 as the 4th Medical Troop (organic elements of the 4th Medical Squadron concurrently inactivated)
- Reorganized and redesignated 15 July 1940 as Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment, 47th Medical Battalion (organic elements concurrently activated); concurrently relieved from assignment to the 7th Cavalry Brigade and assigned to the 1st Armored Division
- Redesignated 1 January 1942 as the 47th Armored Medical Battalion
- Reorganized and redesignated 20 July 1944 as the 47th Medical Battalion, Armored
- Reorganized and redesignated 19 March 1945 as the 47th Armored Medical Battalion
- Inactivated 10 April 1946 at Camp Kilmer, New Jersey
- Activated 7 March 1951 at Fort Hood, Texas
- Reorganized and redesignated 15 February 1957 as the 47th Medical Battalion
- Inactivated (less Company B) 23 December 1957 at Fort Polk, Louisiana
- Activated (less Company B) 3 February 1962 at Fort Hood, Texas
- Inactivated 15 September 1985 in Germany
- Converted and redesignated 1 May 1987 as the 47th Support Battalion and activated in Germany as an element of the 1st Armored Division
- Relieved 16 September 2010 from assignment to the 1st Armored Division and assigned to the 2d Brigade Combat Team, 1st Armored Division
CAMPAIGN PARTICIPATION CREDIT
- World War II
- Tunisia
- Naples-Foggia
- Anzio
- Rome-Arno
- North Apennines
- Po Valley
- Southwest Asia
- Defense of Saudi Arabia
- Liberation and Defense of Kuwait
- Cease-Fire
- War on Terrorism
- Global War on Terrorism
- (Additional campaigns to be determined)
Company B additionally entitled to:
- World War II
- Algeria-French Morocco (with arrowhead)
DECORATIONS
- Presidential Unit Citation (Army), Streamer embroidered AL KUT AND AN NAJAF
- Valorous Unit Award, Streamer embroidered IRAQ 1991
- Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), Streamer embroidered ITALY
- Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), Streamer embroidered SOUTHWEST ASIA 2005-2006
- Army Superior Unit Award, Streamer embroidered 1995-1996
BY ORDER OF THE SECRETARY OF THE ARMY:
ROBERT J. DALESSANDRO
Director, Center of Military History