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Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 1st Battalion, 148th Infantry Regiment
MAJOR SUBORDINATE COMMAND: 37th Infantry Brigade Combat Team (IBCT)
HOME STATION: Walbridge
PARENT UNIT
Sanitary Detachment, 2nd Infantry Regiment
DATE & PLACE OF BIRTH
1 May 1921, St. Marys, Ohio
MISSION
To close with and destroy enemy forces using fire, maneuver and shock effect, or to repel his assault by fire and counterattack.
CAMPAIGN CREDIT
World War II
Northern Solomons, Luzon (with arrowhead)
Normandy
Northern France
Rhineland
Ardennes-Alsace
Central Europe
War on Terrorism
Global War on Terrorism;
Afghanistan: Consolidation I, Transition I
DECORATIONS
Presidential Unit Citation (Army)
Streamer embroidered LUZON
Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army)
Streamer embroidered AFGHANISTAN 2012
Presidential Unit Citation (Army)
Streamer embroidered 17 OCTOBER 1944 TO 4 JULY 1945
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Headquarters Company, 1st Battalion,
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HISTORICAL SKETCH
Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 1st Battalion, 148th Infantry Regiment is organized in St. Marys, Ohio as Sanitary Detachment, 2nd Infantry Regiment. This year marks a century of service for the unit during which time the company has earned campaign credit for World War II and the War on Terrorism. During World War II, the unit was designated as the Medical Detachment, 148th Infantry and earned the Presidential Unit Citation for its part in the liberation of Manila, when over 20 members of the detachment earned valorous awards including 2 Distinguished Service Crosses. Following World War II, the unit moved to Toledo, Ohio and in 1975, as Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment, 50th Military Police Group, was the first unit to occupy the new Maj. Gen. Gilson D. Light Armory in Walbridge, Ohio, where it remains today. In this 1965 photo, Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 2nd Brigade, 37th Infantry Division poses for a unit photograph during annual training at Camp Grayling, Mich. From 1963 to 1968, the company was designated under this name.
1943 ~ Staff Sgt. Max Ruhl (third from left) receives the Silver Star Medal on Guadalcanal in October 1943. Ruhl, a member of Medical Detachment, 148th Infantry, received the medal for voluntarily coming to the aid of a bulldozer detachment that had been ambushed by the enemy on New Georgia in July 1943. With Ruhl is Lt. Col. Lawrence K. White (from left), commanding officer of the 148th Infantry, Capt. Joseph Gallon, the regimental surgeon, Ruhl and Capt. James Murphy.
1950 ~ Medical Company, 148th Infantry, Camp Atterbury, Ind.
1952 ~ Sgt. J.D. Tippett and Sgt. Joseph Lucas of Medical Company, 148th Infantry check a wounded man before evacuation during a training exercise at Camp Polk, La. July 21, 1952.
1965 ~ Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 2nd Brigade, 37th Infantry Division, Camp Grayling, Mich.
1975 ~ The 50th Military Police Group color guard passes in review during a retreat ceremony as part of annual training at Camp McCoy, Wisc.
2004 ~ Sgt. Jonathan Link, of Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 416th Engineer Group, unloads school supplies and other humanitarian assistance from a vehicle at the Uzbashi Secondary school near Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan, April 12, 2004.
2012 ~ Spc. Zach Laker, tactical explosive detection dog handler assigned to Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 1st Battalion, 148th Infantry Regiment, gives a command to Sassy, his TEDD (Tactical Explosive Detection Dog), while checking a vehicle at Forward Operating Base Griffin, Faryab province, Afghanistan, Feb. 24, 2012.
Photos from Ohio National Guard Heritage Center