Lineages and Honors Information
Support / Sustainment

Lineage and Honors Information as of 27 June 2019

Headquarters and Headquarters Company,
751st Support Battalion

  • Organized 7 May 1843 in the South Carolina Volunteer Militia at Columbia as the Governor's Guard and attached to the 23d Regiment
  • Mustered into Federal service 15 December 1846 at Charleston as Company H, Palmetto Regiment; mustered out of Federal service 6 July 1848 at Mobile, Alabama, and resumed state status as the Governor's Guard
  • Reorganized and redesignated 17 December 1860 as Company A, 2d Regiment (Palmetto Regiment), South Carolina Volunteers
  • Mustered into state service 9 April 1861; mustered into Confederate service in May 1861; reorganized in February 1862
  • Surrendered 26 April 1865 near Greensboro, North Carolina, with the Army of the Tennessee, commanded by General Joseph E. Johnston
  • Reorganized in 1878 in the South Carolina Army Volunteers at Columbia as the Governor's Guard following interim existence as the Richland Rifle Club since 1874
  • Reorganized in 1885 as Company C (Governor's Guard), 2d Regiment of Infantry
  • (South Carolina Volunteers redesignated about 1895-1905 as the South Carolina State Volunteer Troops; redesignated in 1905 as the South Carolina National Guard)
  • Mustered into Federal service 24 May 1898 at Columbia as Company K, 1st South Carolina Volunteer Infantry; mustered out of Federal service 10 November 1898 at Columbia and resumed state status as Company C, 2d Regiment of Infantry
  • Redesignated 1 April 1915 as Company F, 2d Regiment of Infantry
  • Mustered into Federal service 8 July 1916 at Camp Moore, South Carolina; mustered out of Federal service 20 March 1917
  • Drafted into Federal service 5 August 1917
  • Consolidated 12 September 1917 with Company H, 2d Regiment of Infantry (organized in 1903 at New Brookland), and consolidated unit converted and redesignated as Company G, 105th Ammunition Train, an element of the 30th Division
  • Demobilized 1 April 1919 at Camp Jackson, South Carolina
  • Former Company F, 2d Regiment of Infantry, reorganized and Federally recognized 1 October 1921 in the South Carolina National Guard at Columbia as Headquarters Company, 1st Infantry
  • Redesignated 19 December 1921 as Headquarters Company, 118th Infantry, an element of the 30th Division
  • Inducted into Federal service 16 September 1940 at Columbia
  • (118th Infantry relieved 24 August 1942 from assignment to the 30th Division)
  • Inactivated 15 January 1946 at Camp Kilmer, New Jersey
  • Reorganized and Federally recognized 14 May 1947 at Columbia as Company F, 118th Infantry, an element of the 51st Infantry Division
  • Reorganized and redesignated 1 November 1948 as Headquarters Company, 118th Infantry
  • Consolidated 1 April 1959 with Headquarters Detachment, 751st Ordnance Battalion (organized and Federally recognized 23 April 1953 at Columbia), and consolidated unit reorganized and redesignated as Company A, 751st Ordnance Battalion, an element of the 51st Infantry Division
  • Reorganized and redesignated 1 April 1963 as Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment, 751st Ordnance Battalion, and relieved from assignment to the 51st Infantry Division
  • Redesignated 1 January 1968 as Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment, 751st Maintenance Battalion
  • Consolidated 1 October 1996 with the 3649th Maintenance Company (see ANNEX) and consolidated unit designated as Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment, 751st Maintenance Battalion
  • Location changed 1 September 1998 to Eastover; on 1 April 2000 to Columbia
  • Ordered into active Federal service 10 February 2003 at Columbia; released from active Federal service 7 August 2004 and reverted to state control
  • Location changed 1 March 2005 to Eastover
  • Reorganized and redesignated 1 September 2008 as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 751st Support Battalion
  • Ordered into active Federal service 21 February 2009 at Eastover; released from active Federal service 27 March 2010 and reverted to state control
  • Ordered into active Federal service 18 October 2013 at Eastover; released from active Federal service 21 November 2014 and reverted to state control
  • ANNEX
  • Organized and Federally recognized 29 May 1922 in the South Carolina National Guard at Columbia as the 218th Motor Transport Company
  • Redesignated 1 January 1928 as the 119th Motor Transport Company and assigned to the 30th Division
  • Reorganized and redesignated 14 November 1936 as Company D, 105th Quartermaster Regiment, an element of the 30th Division
  • Inducted into Federal service 18 September 1940 at Columbia
  • Reorganized and redesignated 7 February 1942 as the Maintenance Platoon, Headquarters Company, 105th Quartermaster Battalion
  • (30th Division redesignated 16 February 1942 as the 30th Infantry Division)
  • Reorganized and redesignated 14 September 1942 as the 730th Ordnance Light Maintenance Company, an element of the 30th Infantry Division
  • Inactivated 17 November 1945 at Fort Jackson, South Carolina
  • Reorganized and Federally recognized 29 January 1947 at Columbia as the 3649th Ordnance Medium Maintenance Company
  • Redesignated 1 April 1959 as the 3649th Ordnance Company
  • Redesignated 1 January 1968 as the 3649th Maintenance Company

HOME STATION: Eastover

Campaign Participation Credit

  • Mexican War
  • Vera Cruz
  • Contreras
  • Churubusco
  • Chapultepec
  • Civil War - Confederate service
  • Sumter
  • First Manassas
  • Peninsula
  • Second Manassas
  • Sharpsburg
  • Fredericksburg
  • Chancellorsville
  • Gettysburg
  • Chickamauga
  • North Carolina 1865
  • World War I
  • St. Mihiel
  • Meuse-Argonne
  • Lorraine 1918
  • World War II
  • Normandy (with arrowhead)
  • Northern France
  • Rhineland
  • Ardennes-Alsace
  • Central Europe
  • War on Terrorism
  • Global War on Terrorism
  • Iraq:
  • Iraqi Sovereignty
  • (additional campaigns to be determined)

Decorations

  • Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), Streamer embroidered EUROPEAN THEATER
  • French Croix de Guerre with Palm, World War II, Streamer embroidered FRANCE
  • Belgian Fourragere 1940
  • Cited in the Order of the Day of the Belgian Army for action in Belgium
  • Cited in the Order of the Day of the Belgian Army for action in the Ardennes

By Order of the Secretary of the Army:

CHARLES R. BOWERY, JR.
Chief of Military History


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