Lineages and Honors of the California National Guard
126th Medical Company


Organized 29 July 1870 in the California National Guard as the Sarsfield Grenadier Guard at Sacramento

Redesignated 19 February 1872 as Company G, 4th Infantry Regiment Redesignated 31 March 1877 as Company G, 1st Infantry Battalion

Converted and redesignated 19 March 1880 as Company G, 1st Artillery Regiment

Converted and redesignated 1 July 1893 as Company G, 2d Infantry Regiment

Redesignated 7 December 1895 as Company G, 11th Infantry Battalion

Redesignated 9 December 1895 as Company G, 2d Infantry Regiment

Mustered into Federal service 27 June 1916 at Sacramento for service on the Mexican border; mustered out 15 November 1916

Called into Federal service 26 March 1917; drafted into Federal service 5 August 1917

Redesignated 13 October 1917 as Company G, 160th Infantry, an element of the 40th Division

Demobilized 7 May 1919 at Camp Kearny, California

Reorganized 21 May 1919 in the California National Guard as the 5th Separate Company, Infantry, at Sacramento; Federally recognized 28 June 1919

Redesignated 1 October 1921 as Company G, 159th Infantry, an element of the 40th Division

Redesignated 1 July 1924 as Company G, 184th Infantry, an element of the 40th Division

Redesignated 30 September 1925 as Headquarters Company, 184th Infantry

Redesignated 16 November 1936 as Company B, 184th Infantry

Reorganized and redesignated 1 October 1939 as the Anti-tank Platoon, Headquarters Company, 184th Infantry

Reorganized and redesignated 16 December 1940 as Antitank Company, 184th Infantry Inducted into Federal service 3 March 1941 at Sacramento

(184th Infantry relieved in June 1942 from assignment to the 40th Infantry Division; assigned 23 August 1943 to the 7th Infantry Division)

Inactivated 20 January 1946 in Korea

(184th Infantry relieved 5 August 1946 from assignment to the 7th Infantry Division and assigned to the 49th Infantry Division)

Reorganized and Federally recognized 21 November 1946 as Tank Company, 184th Infantry at Sacramento

Converted and redesignated 1 May 1959 as Troop C, 2d Reconnaissance Squadron, 149th Armor, an element of the 49th Infantry Division

Reorganized and redesignated 1 March 1963 as Troop C, 1st Squadron, 170th Cavalry, an element of the 49th Infantry Division

Converted and redesignated 29 January 1968 as Company C (less Weapons Platoon), 1st Battalion, 159th Infantry; concurrently relieved from assignment to the 49th Infantry Division
Reorganized and redesignated 1 May 1968 as Company C (less Weapons Platoon), 1st Battalion, 184th Infantry, an element of the 49th Infantry Brigade

Consolidated 13 January 1974 with Detachment 1, Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 49th Infantry Brigade (see ANNEX 1), and consolidated unit converted and redesignated as the 126th Medical Company; concurrently relieved from assignment to the 49th Infantry Brigade

HOME STATION: Secramento

 
Annex 1
 

Constituted 31 March 1939 as the 102d Radio Intelligence Company and allotted to the California National Guard

Organized and Federally recognized 31 July 1939 at Sacramento

Inducted into Federal service 25 November 1940 at Sacramento

Redesignated 7 August 1941 as the 102d Signal Radio Intelligence Company

Redesignated 20 May 1943 as the 131st Signal Radio Intelligence Company Reorganized and redesignated 15 July 1945 as the 131st Signal Service Company Inactivated 1 November 1945 at Fort Richardson, Alaska

Reorganized and Federally recognized 26 November 1956 as Headquarters Company, 118th Signal Battalion at Sacramento

Consolidated 1 March 1963 with Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 169th Transportation Battalion (organized and Federally recognized 1 May 1959 at Sacramento), and consolidated unit converted and redesignated as the 1114th Transportation Company

Reorganized and redesignated 4 December 1965 as the Aircraft Maintenance Platoon, Company D, 49th Support Battalion, an element of the 49th Infantry Brigade

Consolidated 1 November 1971 with the 152d Aviation Company (see ANNEX II), and consolidated unit converted and redesignated as Detachment 1, Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 49th Infantry Brigade
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Annex 2

Constituted 23 April 1959 in the California Army National Guard as the 152d Medical Company
 
Organized and Federally recognized 1 May 1959 at Sacramento
 
Ordered into active Federal service 1 October 1961 at Sacramento; released from active Federal service 31 August 1962 and reverted to state control
 
Converted and redesignated 1 March 1963 as Company B, 49th Aviation Battalion, an element of the 49th Infantry Division
 
Reorganized and redesignated 4 December 1965 as the 149th Aviation Company, an element of the 49th Infantry Brigade
 
Reorganized and redesignated 1 July 1971 as the 152d Aviation Company; concurrently relieved from assignment to the 49th Infantry Brigade

 
Campaign Participation Credit
 
World War II
Asiatic-Pacific Theater
Aleutian Islands
Eastern Mandates (with arrowhead)
Leyte (with arrowhead)
Ryukyus

Decorations
 
Philippine Presidential Unit Citation, Streamer embroidered 17 OCTOBER 1944 TO 4 JULY 1945

BY ORDER OF THE SECRETARY OF THE ARMY:
 
VERNE,L BOWERS
Major General, USA
The Adjutant General
 
20 March 1975

 

 
 
 
 
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