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The Missouri National Guard was the first National Guard unit to be called into active service since the end of Vietnam. Missouri National Guardsmen in September 2014 Missouri Army National Guardsmen of the 1175th Military Police Company maintain traffic control points on flooded roads in Missouri’s Jefferson County area May 4, 2017.
After the end of World War II, the 140th Infantry continued as part of the Missouri National Guard, assigned to the reorganized 35th Infantry Division on 20 June 1946. The regiment was organized in southeastern Missouri and its headquarters at Cape Girardeau, Missouri received federal recognition later that year on 16 October. [1]
On that day, the lineage and honors of the regiment passed to the 1138th Engineer Battalion and were held by units in St. Louis, including Company B, 1st Battalion, 138th Infantry Regiment, until reclaimed by the entire battalion in 2014 when the U.S. Army and National Guard Bureau recognized the 138th once again in the U.S. Army Regimental System.
Today, the 135-acre National Guard post at Jefferson Barracks is home to the 70th Troop Command, the Missouri Army National Guard's largest brigade. The post is also headquarters for the Region 7 Homeland Response Force; the Missouri Air National Guard 's 157th Air Operations Group and the 10th Psychological Operations Battalion of the U.S ...
It was reformed on 23 June 1923, as the 110th Observation Squadron, and is one of the 29 original National Guard Observation Squadrons of the United States Army National Guard formed before World War II. The 131st Bomb Wing, of which the 110th Bomb Squadron is a part, is the only Air National Guard Bomb Wing certified to conduct nuclear ...
The 129th Field Artillery Regiment is a regiment of the Field Artillery Branch of the United States Army, part of the Missouri Army National Guard.The 1st Battalion is the only active unit of the regiment, with the battalion Headquarters and Headquarters Battery in Maryville, Battery A in Albany, Battery B in Chillicothe, and Battery D in Independence.
The 203rd Engineer Battalion is a combat engineer battalion of the Missouri Army National Guard.. The 203rd Engineer Battalion can trace its history back to Missouri volunteer militia units that formed in 1883, when the militia units in southwest Missouri were reorganized into the 2nd Infantry Regiment of the National Guard of Missouri in 1890 and mustered into federal service during the ...
The first 139th Infantry Regiment was originally formed for service in World War I from Kansas and Missouri troops, the 3rd Kansas and 4th Missouri Infantry Regiments. The 4th Infantry, Missouri National Guard was organized on 1 March 1891 with companies at Brookfield, Mound City, Linneus, Bethany, Richmond, St. Joseph, and Savannah.