Lineage And Honors Information
Lineage and Honors Information as of 2 October 2012
HEADQUARTERS AND HEADQUARTERS COMPANY
630th SUPPORT BATTALION
- Organized and Federally recognized 28 April 1923 in the North Carolina National Guard at Lenoir as Headquarters Detachment and Combat Train, 3d Battalion, 117th Field Artillery, an element of the 39th Division
- (117th Field Artillery relieved 1 July 1923 from assignment to the 39th Division and assigned to the 31st Division)
- Redesignated 24 July 1925 as Headquarters Battery and Combat Train, 3d Battalion, 117th Field Artillery
- Redesignated 12 January 1927 as Headquarters Battery and Combat Train, 3d Battalion, 113th Field Artillery, an element of the 30th Division (later redesignated as the 30th Infantry Division)
- Reorganized and redesignated 1 July 1940 as Headquarters Battery, 3d Battalion, 113th Field Artillery
- Inducted into Federal service 16 September 1940 at Lenoir
- Inactivated 1 October 1940 at Fort Jackson, South Carolina
- Reorganized and Federally recognized 9 June 1947 in the North Carolina National Guard at Lenoir as Headquarters Battery, 112th Field Artillery Battalion, an element of the 30th Infantry Division
- Reorganized and redesignated 1 April 1959 as Headquarters Battery, 5th Howitzer Battalion, 113th Field Artillery, an element of the 30th Infantry Division
- Reorganized and redesignated 10 March 1963 as Headquarters and Service Battery, 1st Battalion, 113th Field Artillery, an element of the 30th Infantry Division
- Converted, reorganized, and redesignated 1 January 1968 as Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment, 540th Transportation Battalion, and relieved from assignment to the 30th Infantry Division
- Converted, reorganized, and redesignated 1 September 1980 as Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment, 540th Quartermaster Battalion
- Ordered into active Federal service 27 September 1990 at Lenior; released from active Federal service 5 May 1991 and reverted to state control
- Ordered into active Federal service 8 May 2006 at Lenoir; released from active Federal service 3 November 2007 and reverted to state control
- Converted, reorganized, and redesignated 1 September 2006 as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 630th Support Battalion
- HOME STATION: Lenoir
CAMPAIGN PARTICIPATION CREDIT
- Southwest Asia
- Defense of Saudi Arabia
- Liberation and Defense of Kuwait
- Cease-Fire
- War on Terrorism
- Campaigns to be determined
DECORATIONS
- Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), Streamer embroidered SOUTHWEST ASIA 1990-1991
- Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), Streamer embroidered IRAQ 2006-2007
BY ORDER OF THE SECRETARY OF THE ARMY:
ROBERT J. DALESSANDRO
Director, Center of Military History