History of the Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 29th Infantry Brigade Combat Team

Posted on Jan 15, 2025 in HING History, Units

Lineage And Honors Information

  • Constituted 15 September 1953 and allotted to the Hawaii Army National Guard as the 120th Signal Support Company
  • Organized and Federally recognized 4 January 1954 at Honolulu
  • Converted and redesignated 15 January 1959 as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 29th Infantry Brigade
  • Ordered into active Federal service 13 May 1968 at Honolulu; released 12 December 1969 from active Federal service and reverted to state control
  • Consolidated 1 October 1995 with Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment, 297th Supply and Service Battalion (see ANNEX), and consolidated unit designated as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 29th Infantry Brigade
  • Location changed 1 January 2003 to Kapolei
  • Ordered into active Federal service 16 August 2004 at Kapolei; released 13 March 2006 from active Federal service and reverted to state control
  • Reorganized and redesignated 1 September 2007 as Headquarters, 29th Infantry Brigade Combat Team
  • Ordered into active Federal service 19 August 2008 at Kapolei; released from active Federal service 22 September 2009 and reverted to state control
  • Ordered into active Federal service 29 July 2012 at Kapolei; released from active Federal service 1 September 201 3 and reverted to state control

ANNEX

  • Organized and Federally recognized 17 November 1947 in the Hawaii National Guard at Wahiawa as Company E, 298th Infantry
  • Converted and redesignated 3 December 1956 as Battery C, 297th Antiaircraft Artillery Battalion
  • Reorganized and redesignated 15 January 1959 as Battery C, 297th Missile Battalion; location concurrently changed to Waialua
  • Reorganized and redesignated 1 May 1959 as Battery C, 2d Missile Battalion, 298th Artillery
  • Reorganized and redesignated 15 November 1 965 as Battery A, 1st Battalion, 298th Artillery
  • Converted and redesignated 1 April 1970 as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 297th Supply and Service Battalion; location concurrently changed to Ewa
  • Location changed 1 September 197 4 to Wahiawa
  • Reorganized and redesignated 1 April 1984 as Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment, 297th Supply and Service Battalion
  • Location changed 1 February 1994 to Honolulu

CAMPAIGN PARTICIPATION CREDIT

War on Terrorism

Iraq:

  • Iraqi Governance
  • National Resolution

DECORATIONS

  • Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), Streamer embroidered IRAQ 2005-2006

Last updated Jun 2014