Lineages and Honors Information
Support / Sustainment

Lineage and Honors Information as of 20 Nov 2019

Headquarters and Headquarters Company
142d Support Battalion
(Atlas)

  • Constituted 13 January 1944 in the Army of the United States as Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment, 142d Quartermaster Battalion, Mobile
  • Activated 31 January 1944 at Camp Butner, North Carolina
  • Reorganized and redesignated 1 September 1946 as Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment, 142d Quartermaster Battalion
  • Allotted 8 December 1950 to the Regular Army
  • (Organic elements constituted and activated 15 December 1962)
  • Battalion inactivated 1 January 1966 in Korea
  • Converted and redesignated 16 March 1981 as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 142d Supply and Service Battalion, and activated in Germany
  • Reorganized and redesignated 16 January 1983 as Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment, 142d Supply and Service Battalion
  • Reorganized and redesignated 16 October 1994 as Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment, 142d Support Battalion
  • Reorganized and redesignated 16 October 2006 as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 142d Support Battalion

Campaign Participation Credit

  • World War II
  • European-African-Middle Eastern
  • Theater, Streamer without inscription
  • Korean War
  • CCF Intervention
  • First UN Counteroffensive
  • CCF Spring Offensive
  • UN Summer-Fall Offensive
  • Second Korean Winter
  • Korea, Summer-Fall 1952
  • Third Korean Winter
  • Korea, Summer 1953
  • War on Terrorism
  • Afghanistan:
  • Consolidation III
  • Iraq:
  • Transition of Iraq
  • Iraqi Governance
  • National Resolution
  • Iraqi Surge
  • Iraqi Sovereignty

Decorations

  • Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), Streamer embroidered IRAQ 2005-2006
  • Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), Streamer embroidered IRAQ 2007-2009
  • Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), Streamer embroidered AFGHANISTAN 2011-2012
  • Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), Streamer embroidered AFGHANISTAN 2014

By Order of the Secretary of the Army:

CHARLES R. BOWERY, JR.
Chief of Military History


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