Organized 1830-1831 in the Michigan Militia at Detroit as the Detroit City Guards

Mustered into Federal service 24 May 1832 as Captain Isaac S. Rowland’s Company, 1st Michigan Militia Regiment; mustered out of Federal service 31 May 1832

Reorganized 13 April 1836 in the Michigan Militia at Detroit as the Brady Guards, Captain Isaac S. Rowland, commanding

Mustered into Federal service 5 January 1838 as Captain Rowland’s Independent Company, Brady Guards; mustered out of Federal service 4 April 1838

Mustered into Federal service 6 December 1838; mustered out of Federal service
22 February 1839

Mustered into Federal service 1 March 1839; mustered out of Federal service 31 May 1839

Mustered into Federal service 4 December 1847

Consolidated 8 December 1847 with other independent militia companies (including the Scott Guards organized 11 October 1841 at Detroit) to form the 1st Michigan Volunteer Infantry Regiment

Regiment mustered out of Federal service 29 July 1848 and continued in state service as independent militia companies

Brady Guards redesignated 16 November 1855 as the Detroit Light Guard

Reorganized and redesignated 25 April 1861 as the 1st Michigan Volunteer Infantry Regiment (Detroit Light Guard concurrently redesignated as Company A)

1st Michigan Volunteer Infantry Regiment mustered into Federal service 1 May 1861 at Detroit; mustered out of Federal service 7 August 1861

Reorganized and mustered into Federal service 16 September 1861 at Ann Arbor as the 1st Michigan Volunteer Infantry

Reorganized 1 March 1864 in Federal service as the 1st Michigan Veteran Volunteer Infantry; mustered out of Federal service 9 July 1865 at Jeffersonville, Indiana

Reorganized 1867-1874 in the Michigan State Troops as independent companies

Detroit units reorganized and redesignated 6 July 1874 as Companies A and C, 1st Infantry Regiment

Redesignated 19 May 1876 as Companies A and B, 3d Infantry Regiment

Reorganized and redesignated 1 May 1882 as the 1st Separate Battalion of Infantry

Expanded, reorganized, and redesignated 3 July 1885 as the 4th Infantry Regiment

(Michigan State Troops redesignated 31 December 1894 as the Michigan National Guard)

Regiment broken up in 1898 and reorganized and redesignated as the 1st and 2d Independent Battalions of Infantry

Redesignated in April 1898 as the 3d Battalion, 2d Infantry Regiment, and the 3d Battalion, 1st Infantry Regiment, respectively

Mustered into Federal service 8-11 May and 11-14 May 1898, respectively, as the 3d Battalion, 31st Michigan Volunteer Infantry, and the 3d Battalion, 32d Michigan Volunteer Infantry

Mustered out of Federal service 17 May 1899 at Savannah, Georgia, and 25 October-
9 November 1898 at home stations, respectively

Detroit elements reorganized 10 July 1899 in the Michigan National Guard as the 1st Battalion, 1st Infantry

Redesignated 22 April 1915 as the 1st Battalion, 31st Infantry

Mustered into Federal service 1 July 1916 at Camp Grayling, Michigan; mustered out of Federal service 20 January 1917 at Fort Wayne, Michigan

Called into Federal service 15 July 1917 at Detroit; drafted into Federal service
5 August 1917

Reorganized and redesignated 30 September 1917 as the 1st Battalion, 125th Infantry, an element of the 32d Division

Demobilized 22 May 1919 at Camp Custer, Michigan

Reorganized and Federally recognized 15 December 1920 in the Michigan National Guard at Detroit as the 1st Battalion, Infantry

Redesignated 28 November 1921 as the 1st Battalion, 125th Infantry, an element of the 32d Division

Inducted into Federal service 15 October 1940 at Detroit

(125th Infantry relieved 8 December 1941 from assignment to the 32d Division)

Inactivated 20 September 1945 at Camp Rucker, Alabama

Reorganized and Federally recognized 26 November 1946 in the Michigan National Guard as the 425th Infantry, with Headquarters at Detroit, and assigned to the 46th Infantry Division

Reorganized and redesignated 15 March 1959 as the 225th Infantry, a parent regiment under the Combat Arms Regimental System, to consist of the 1st Battle Group, an element of the 46th Infantry Division

Reorganized 15 March 1963 to consist of the 1st Battalion, an element of the 46th Infantry Division

(1st Battalion ordered into active Federal service 24 July 1967 at home stations; released from active Federal service 2 August 1967 and reverted to state control)

Reorganized 1 February 1968 to consist of the 1st Battalion, an element of the 38th Infantry Division

Withdrawn 20 February 1987 from the Combat Arms Regimental System and reorganized under the United States Army Regimental System with Headquarters at Detroit

Withdrawn from the United States Army Regimental System 1 September 1992; concurrently converted and redesignated as Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment, 225th Quartermaster Battalion

Converted, reorganized, and redesignated 1 September 1997 as Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment, 1225th Support Battalion

Ordered into active Federal service 8 October 2004 at Detroit; released from active Federal service 15 November 2005 and reverted to state control

Ordered into active Federal service 3 August 2010 at Detroit

HOME STATION:  Detroit

 

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DECORATIONS

Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), Streamer embroidered IRAQ 2004-2005

French Croix de Guerre with Palm, World War I, Streamer embroidered OISE-AISNE

 

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