1st Personnel Group
The 1st Personnel Group provides personnel service, financial service and band support to I Corps, Fort Lewis, other units, and civilian community throughout the Western United States. On order, deploy to an area of operations, command and control subordinate units, and provide sustainment and services.
The lineage of the 1st Personnel Group dates back to the constitution of the 1st Replacement Depot on 1 July 1940. The unit was formerly activated on 10 March 1942 at Fort Ord, California and received campaign credit in the European - African - Middle Eastern Theater; receiving the Campaign Streamer without inscription. The unit was inactivated following World war II on 14 August 1945 in Italy. The unit was reactivated in Korea on 10 December 1946 and inactivated shortly afterward on 25 January 1949. The unit was redisignated as Headquarters Detachment, 1st Personnel Group on 16 September 1990 at Fort Lewis, Washington. The unit was awarded the Army Superior Unit Award on 16 January 2001 for its efforts supporting Transformation.
