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1742d Transportation Company

  • Organized 12 November 1885 at Brookings as Company G, 2d Regiment, Dakota Militia, Dakota Territory
  • (Territory of Dakota divided 22 February 1889 into North Dakota and South Dakota by an Act of Congress)
  • (Organized Militia of South Dakota redesignated 6 March 1893 as the South Dakota National Guard)
  • Redesignated 9 September 1893 as Company G, 1st Regiment, South Dakota National Guard
  • Mustered out at Brookings by December 1897
  • Reorganized 16 May 1898 at Brookings as Company K, 1st Regiment
  • Mustered into Federal service 12-19 May 1898 at Brookings as Company K, 1st South Dakota Volunteer Infantry Regiment
  • Mustered out of Federal service 5 October 1899 at the Presidio of San Francisco, California
  • Reorganized and redesignated 22 August 1908 as Company C, 4th Infantry
  • Mustered out at Brookings 24 February 1914
  • Reorganized 5 March 1914 at Brookings as Company C, 4th Infantry
  • Mustered into Federal service 30 June 1916
  • Mustered out of Federal service 3 March 1917 at Fort Crook, Nebraska
  • Called into Federal service 15 July 1917 at Brookings; drafted into Federal service 5 August 1917
  • Converted and redesignated 3 October 1917 as Company C, 147th Field Artillery, an element of the 41st Division
  • Demobilized 23 May 1919 at Camp Dodge, Iowa
  • Reorganized and Federally recognized 5 April 1922 at Brookings as Company E, 136th Engineer Regiment
  • Reorganized and redesignated 1 January 1924 as Company B, 109th Engineer Regiment, an element of the 34th Division
  • Inducted into Federal service 10 February 1941 at Brookings
  • Reorganized and redesignated 1 February 1942 as Company B, 132d Engineer Regiment; concurrently relieved from assignment to the 34th Division
  • Reorganized and redesignated 1 August 1942 as Company B, 132d Engineer Combat Regiment
  • Reorganized and redesignated 5 April 1943 as Company B, 132d Engineer Combat Battalion
  • Inactivated 31 January 1946 at Matsayama, Japan
  • Reorganized and Federally recognized 24 September 1946 as Company M, 196th Infantry
  • Ordered into active Federal service 1 September 1950 at Brookings
  • (Company M, 196th Infantry [NGUS] organized and Federally recognized 1 September 1952 at Brookings)
  • Released from active Federal service 10 October 1954 and reverted to state control; concurrently, Federal recognition withdrawn from Company M, 196th Infantry (NGUS)
  • Converted and redesignated 15 September 1956 as Company B, 154th Engineer Battalion
  • Reorganized and redesignated 21 October 1959 as Company C, 153d Engineer Battalion
  • Converted and redesignated 15 April 1963 as the 74lst Transportation Company
  • Reorganized and redesignated 8 January 1972 as Detachment 1, 741st Transportation Company
  • Consolidated 1 October 1978 with the 741st Transportation Company (see ANNEX1) and consolidated unit designated as the 741st Transportation Company; concurrently, location changed to Clear Lake
    Consolidated 1 March 1993 with the 1742d Transportation Company (see ANNEX 2) and consolidated unit designated as the 1742d Transportation Company; concurrently, location changed to Sioux Falls
  • Ordered into active Federal service 11 March 2003 at Sioux Falls; released from active Federal service 9 March 2004 and reverted to state control
  • Ordered into active Federal service 12 December 2013 at Sioux Falls
  • ANNEX 1
  • Organized and Federally recognized 12 November 1956 in the South Dakota Army National Guard at Clear Lake as the 741st Transportation Company
  • Ordered into active Federal service 15 October 1961 at Clear Lake; released from active Federal service 5 August 1962 and reverted to state control
  • Reorganized and redesignated 15 April 1963 as the 2d and 3d Truck Platoons, 740th Transportation Company
  • Reorganized and redesignated 15 November 1965 as the 3d Platoon, 741st Transportation Company
  • Reorganized and redesignated 8 January 1972 as the 741st Transportation Company
  • ANNEX 2
  • Organized and federally recognized 29 September 1953 in the South Dakota Army National Guard at Watertown as 200th Engineer Company (NGUS)
  • Reorganized and redesignated 10 October 1954 as 200th Engineer Company
  • Reorganized and redesignated 15 September 1956 as Company C, 154th Engineer Battalion
  • Reorganized and redesignated 21 October 1959 as 1st Engineer Platoon, Company C, 153d Engineer Battalion
  • Reorganized and redesignated 15 January 1962 as 2d and 3d Engineer Platoons, Company C, 153d Engineer Battalion
  • Reorganized and redesignated 15 April 1963 as Company C, 153d Engineer Battalion
  • Converted and redesignated 4 January 1968 as 1742d Transportation Company
  • Ordered into active Federal service 17 November 1990 at Watertown; released from active Federal service 26 May 1991 and reverted to state control
  • HOME STATION: Sioux Falls (less detachment at Flandreau)

Campaign Participation Credit

  • Philippine Insurrection
  • Manila
  • Malolos
  • World War I
  • Lorraine 1918
  • Alsace
  • Aisne-Marne
  • Champagne 1918
  • Oise-Aisne
  • Meuse-Argonne
  • World War II
  • Western Pacific
  • Leyte
  • Ryukyus (with arrowhead)
  • Southwest Asia
  • 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 SOUTHWEST ASIA 2004
  • French Croix de Guerre with Gilt Star, World War I, Streamer embroidered AISNE-MARNE, OISE-AISNE
  • Philippine Presidential Unit Citation, Streamer embroidered 17 OCTOBER 1944 TO 4 JULY 1945

By Order of the Secretary of the Army:

Richard W. Stewart, Ph.D.
Chief of Military History


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