DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY
Lineage and Honors
HEADQUARTERS AND HEADQUARTERS DETACHMENT
198th MILITARY POLICE BATTALION
(LOUISVILLE GUARDS)
Organized and Federally recognized 30 January 1914 in the Kentucky National Guard at Richmond as Company M, 1st Infantry
Mustered into Federal service 25 June 1916 at Fort Thomas, Kentucky; drafted into Federal service 5 August 1917
Converted and redesignated 15 October 1917 as Company G, 113th Ammunition Train, an element of the 38th Division
Demobilized 8 January 1919 at Camp Zachary Taylor, Kentucky
Reorganized and Federally recognized 10 May 1922 in the Kentucky National Guard at Louisville as Headquarters Detachment and Combat Train, 2d Battalion, 138th Field Artillery, an element of the 38th Division
Reorganized and redesignated 9 September 1925 as Headquarters Battery and Combat Train, 2d Battalion, 138th Field Artillery
Reorganized and redesignated 1 July 1940 as Headquarters Battery, 2d Battalion, 138th Field Artillery
Inducted into Federal service 17 January 1941 at Louisville
Reorganized and redesignated 1 March 1942 as Headquarters Battery, 198th Field Artillery Battalion, and relieved from assignment to the 38th Division
Inactivated 21 January 1946 at Camp Anza, California
Reorganized and Federally recognized 4 November 1947 at Louisville
Ordered into active Federal service 1 May 1951 at Louisville
(Headquarters Battery, 198th Field Artillery Battalion [NGUS], organized and Federally recognized 1 May 1953 at Louisville)
Released 2 December 1954 from active Federal service and reverted to state control; Federal recognition concurrently withdrawn from Headquarters Battery, 198th Field Artillery Battalion (NGUS)
Reorganized and redesignated 1 October 1959 as Headquarters Battery, 2d Howitzer Battalion, 138th Artillery
Reorganized and redesignated 1 May 1968 as Headquarters Battery, 2d Battalion, 138th Artillery
Ordered into active Federal service 13 May 1968 at Louisville; released 24 October 1969 from active Federal service and reverted to state control
Redesignated 1 March 1972 as Headquarters Battery, 2d Battalion, 138th Field Artillery
Redesignated 1 August 1972 as Headquarters Battery, 5th Battalion, 138th Field Artillery
Converted and redesignated 1 May 1974 as Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment, 198th Military Police Battalion
Ordered into active Federal service 8 August 1980 at Louisville; released 22 August 1980 from active Federal service and reverted to state control
Consolidated 30 September 1990 with the 223d Military Police Company (organized in 1878 at Louisville) and consolidated unit designated as the 223d Military Police Company
Ordered into active Federal service 3 January 1991 at Louisville; released 25 May 1991 from active Federal service and reverted to state control
Former Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment, 198th Military Police Battalion, withdrawn 1 May 1995 from the 223d Military Police Company and reorganized as Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment, 198th Military Police Battalion (223d Military Police Company - hereafter separate lineage)
HOME STATION: Louisville
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World War I
Streamer without inscription
World War Il - AP
Leyte (with arrowhead)
Ryukyus
Vietnam
Counteroffensive, Phase IV
Counteroffensive, Phase V
Counteroffensive, Phase VI
Tet 69/Counteroffensive
Summer-Fall 1969
Southwest Asia
Liberation and Defense of Kuwait
Cease-Fire
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Philippine Presidential Unit Citation, Streamer embroidered 17 OCTOBER 1944 TO 4 JULY 1945
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Shoulder sleeve insignia description: On a shield 2 ½-inches in width and 3 ¼-inches in height overall triparted blue, white, and red with a yellow chief, a white long rifle barrel up outlined in blue diagonally from upper to lower right, all within an 1/8-inch blue border.
Red, white and blue are our national colors. The color Yellow and the red and blue allude to the combat arms: Armor (Cavalry), Artillery, and Infantry. The long rifle is inseparably associated with the early history of Kentucky prior to and after its admission to the Union as the 15th State.
The shoulder sleeve insignia was approved on 30 December 1983.
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The fasces, an ancient badge of authority used by Roman magistrates, symbolizes the enforcement of law and order and the maintenance of high disciplinary standards, the basic mission of the organization. The arrowhead and the colors blue, white, and red of the Philippine Presidential Unit Citation commemorate the unit's service as an artillery organization in the Pacific Theater during World War II. Yellow and red are colors of the national flag of South Vietnam and refer to service in that country.
MOTTO: "SERVICE INTEGRITY HONOR".
Design approved: 21 May 1976.
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