101st Signal Battalion NYARNG

^{Organized 12 October 1921 in the New York National
Guard as Combat Train}

^{portion of Headquarters Detachment and Combat Train,
2nd Battalion, 104th}

^{Field Artillery, an element of the 27th Division, at
New York, NY. In 1929,}

^{station relocated to Jamaica, NY.}

^{Inducted into Federal Service 15 October 1940 at New
York, NY. The 27th}

^{Division reorganized and redesignated 1 August 1942 as
the 27th Infantry}

^{Division. Reorganized and redesignated 1 September 1942
as Headquarters}

^{Battery, 104th Field Artillery Battalion, an element of
the 27th Infantry}

^{Division. Inactivated 31 December 1945 at Fort Lawton,
WA.}

^{WORLD WAR II CAMPAIGN PARTICIPATION}

^{Eastern Mandates}

^Ryukus

^{Western Pacific}

^DECORATIONS

^{Navy Unit Commendation, Streamer Embroided
"Eniwetok Atoll"}

^{Converted, reorganized, redesignated and federally
recognized 9 February}

^{1948 as 42nd Signal Company at Jamaica, NY;
concurrently relieved from}

^{assignment to 27th Infantry Division and assigned to
42d Infantry Division.}

^{Reorganized, redesignated 16 March 1959 as Headquarters
and Headquarters}

^{Company, 242nd Signal Battalion, New York Army National
Guard, Hempstead,}

^{NY and with organic elements concurrently organized, Co
A and Co B at}

^{Hempstead, NY and Co C at Huntington Station, NY.}

^{Federally mobilized for participation in Operation
Graphic Hand during the}

^{federal postal workers strike, from 24 to 30 March
1970.}

^{The Battalion was called into state active service on
19 April 1979 for}

^{Operation Golden Plum. During the New York State
correction officer's}

^{strike, the 242nd served for 14 days operating Arthur
Kill Correctional}

^{Facility at Staten Island, NY and was again mobilized
for Hurricane Gloria}

^{in October 1985.}

^{Reorganized 1 September 1990 with HHC stationed at
Hempstead, NY, Co A (-)}

^{stationed at Hempstead, NY, Det 1 Co A stationed at
Huntington Station, NY}

^{and Co B and Co C relocated to Delaware under the
command and control of}

^{the 198th Signal Battalion. Unit members were again
called to state active}

^{service in December 1992 in support of the Nor'easter
which hit the}

^{communities on the north shore of Long Island.}

^{Deactivated 1 September 1993 with members of HHC, Co A
(-), and Det 1 Co A}

^{reorganized into the 101 st Signal Battalion as Company
C (-) stationed in}

^Freeport