1st Armored Division Division Support Command
(DISCOM)
The unit was constituted in the Regular Army as the Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment, 1st Armored Division Trains on 1 January 1942. Nine days later, the unit activated at Fort Knox, Kentucky. On the 24th of January, 1942, the unit was reorganized and redesignated as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 1st Armored Division Trains.
Following World War Two, the unit returned to the United States and was inactivated at Camp Kilmer, New Jersey on 25 April 1946.
On 7 March 1951, the Company was reactivated at Fort Hood, Texas. The unit was reorganized and redesignated as the Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment, 1st Armored Division Trains.
The Detachment consolidated with the 1st Armored Division Band (Organized in 1943) on 3 February 1962. The consolidated unit was reorganized and redesignated as Headquarters, Headquarters and Band, 1st Armored Division Support Command.
On 15 April 1968, the company was again reorganized and redesignated as Headquarters, Headquarters Company and Band, 1st Armored Division Support Command.
Reorganized and redesignated as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 1st Armored Division Support Command with the withdrawal of the 1st Armored Division Band on August 21, 1972.
The unit participated in campaigns throughout Western Europe and Italy. The unit proudly displays campaign streamers from Tunisia, Naples-Foggia, Rome-Arno, North Apennines and the Po Valley.
