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Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment,
734th Transportation Battalion

  • Organized 19 August 1892 in the Nebraska National Guard at Kearney as Company A, 2d Infantry
  • Mustered into Federal service 10 May 1898 at Lincoln as Company A, 2d Nebraska Volunteer Infantry; mustered out of Federal service 24 October 1898 at Omaha and reverted to state control
  • Reorganized and redesignated 1 April 1913 as Company L, 4th Infantry
  • Called into Federal service 18 June 1916 for service on the Mexican border
  • Mustered into Federal service 3 July 1916 at Lincoln; mustered out of Federal service 21 February 1917 at Fort Crook
  • Called into Federal service 15 July 1917
  • Drafted into Federal service 5 August 1917
  • Redesignated 1 October 1917 as Battery E, 127th Field Artillery, and element of the 34th Division (later redesignated as the 34th Infantry Division)
  • Demobilized 24 January 1919 at Camp Dodge, Iowa
  • Reorganized and Federally recognized 29 March 1923 in the Nebraska National Guard at Kearney as the 120th Wagon Company, 35th Division Quartermaster Train
  • Reorganized and redesignated 1 April 1936 as Company D, 110th Quartermaster Regiment, an element of the 35th Division
  • Inducted into Federal service 23 December 1940 at Kearney
  • Reorganized and redesignated 3 February 1942 as the 136th Quartermaster Company and relieved from assignment to the 35th Division
  • Redesignated 1 April 1942 as the 136th Quartermaster Truck Company
  • Inactivated 31 December 1945 at Camp Kilmer, New Jersey
  • Consolidated 20 June 1946 with Headquarters Detachment, 3d Battalion, 110th Quartermaster Regiment (organized and Federally recognized 22 May 1939 at Kearney) and consolidated unit designated as the 136th Quartermaster Truck Company
  • Converted and redesignated 24 July 1946 as the 136th Transportation Corps Truck Company
  • Reorganized and Federally recognized 21 April 1947 at Kearney as the 734th Ordnance Maintenance Company, an element of the 34th Infantry Division
  • Converted and redesignated 1 May 1959 as Headquarters Company, 128th Engineer Battalion, and remained assigned to the 34th Infantry Division
  • (128th Engineer Battalion relieved 1 April 1963 from assignment to the 34th Infantry Division)
  • Converted and redesignated 1 May 1968 as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 1st Battalion, 195th Armor
  • Consolidated 1 January 1997 with Detachment 1, Company C, 1st Battalion, 195th Armor (organized 4 July 1908 at Holdredge) and consolidated unit designated as the Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 1st Battalion, 195th Armor
  • Converted and redesignated 1 September 2001 as Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment, 734th Transportation Battalion
  • Ordered into active Federal service 10 February 2003 at Kearney; released 4 June 2003 from active Federal service and reverted to state control
  • Ordered into active Federal service 26 May 2006 at Kearny; released from active Federal service 21 November 2007 and reverted to state control

HOME STATION: Kearney

Campaign Participation Credit

  • World War I
  • Streamer without inscription
  • World War II
  • Normandy
  • Northern France
  • Rhineland
  • Ardennes-Alsace
  • Central Europe
  • War on Terrorism
  • Campaigns to be determined

Decorations

  • Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), Streamer embroidered IRAQ 2006-2007

By Order of the Secretary of the Army:

RICHARD W. STEWART
Chief of Military History


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