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9th Finance Company
9th Finance Battalion

The 9th Finance Company was first constituted on 1 November 1942 in the Army of the United States as the 9th Finance Section and activated on 7 December 1942 at Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indiana. The unit was redesignated on 22 March 1943 as the 9th Finance Disbursing Section. The Section participated in 3 campaigns during the Second World War: Normandy, Northern France, and Rhineland. Remaining in Europe as part of Allied occupation forces after the end of the Second World War, the Section was inactivated on 20 July 1947 in Germany.

The Section was allotted on 7 December 1950 to the Regular Army and activated on 18 December 1950 in Korea. The Section participated in 7 campaigns during the Korean War: CCF Intervention, First UN Counteroffensive, CCF Spring Offensive, Second Korean Winter, Korea Summer-Fall 1952, Third Korean Winter, and Korea Summer 1953. The Section was inactivated on 15 June 1955 in Korea.

The Section was reactivated on 21 December 1960 in France and inactivated there on 1 September 1964.

The unit was redesignated on 22 June 1965 as the 9th Finance Section and activated on 25 June 1965 at Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indiana. Subsequently deploying to Vietnam, the Section participated in 10 campaigns of the conflict there: Defense, Counteroffensive, Counteroffensive Phase II, Counteroffensive Phase III, Tet Counteroffensive, Counteroffensive Phase IV, Counteroffensive Phase V, Counteroffensive Phase VI, Tet 69/Counteroffensive, and Summer-Fall 1969. The Section was inactivated on 25 June 1969 in Vietnam.

The unit was redesignated on 21 April 1972 as the 9th Finance Company, assigned to the 9th Infantry Division, and activated at Fort Lewis, Washington. It was relieved on 16 April 1987 from assignment to the 9th Infantry Division and concurrently reorganized and redesignated as the 9th Finance Support Unit. It was reorganized and redesignated on 16 October 1992 as the 9th Finance Battalion.

The 9th Finance Battalion managed the Defense Military Pay Office, which provided military pay support and Permanent Change of Station Travel to the Fort Lewis community. Allotments from pay were done so at the soldiers' discretion. Delivery of these allotments was not guaranteed by the Department of Defense. There had been an increase in the number of allotment inquiries pertaining to non-receipt. If the allotment payee claimed non-receipt of an allotment check, the soldier had to obtain a letter from the institution claiming non-receipt. The Military Pay Office would fax this letter to the Finance Center in Indianapolis to begin the re-credit process. This process had been known to take 3-6 months before the soldiers pay account was credited. There were alternatives to having allotments. Soldiers could have funds transferred directly from their checking or savings accounts to pay monthly loan payments, etc.

On 14 June 2008, the 9th Finance Battalion was reorganized and redesignated as the 9th Finance Company, which was subsequently reassigned to the Special Troops Battalion, 593rd Sustainment Brigade. It continued to serve the Joint Base Lewis-McChord and I Corps communities.