01/19/2021
...and we’re still Jenny on the Block
231st Chemical Company
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Official page of the 231st Chemical Company, Maryland Army National Guard
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5600 Rue Saint Lo Drive
Reisterstown, MD
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From Guns to WMD Detectors
The 231st was established in 2009 to provide Chemical Biological Radiological and Nuclear (CBRN) decontamination and reconnaissance assets to Maryland and the United States of America.
Back on February 20, 1879, small African American independent militias were formed in Baltimore. These units combined into a Battalion and saw action during both the Spanish-American War and World War I. At the onset of the Korean War, in 1950, the entire battalion was activated and was one of the first to set foot in Korea. It was designated the 231st Transportation Battalion. Along with the 231st Transportation Battalion, our Company has another part of history attached to it: the 2/110th Field Artillery Regiment (FA). The 2/110th started shortly before America’s entry into World War I in 1917. As a unit of the 29th Infantry Division, the 110th FA earned a campaign streamer in France in World War I and again for the Normandy and Central Europe campaigns in WWII. The 2/110th FA was mobilized for homeland security in 2002 with large numbers of the unit serving in Afghanistan and Iraq. Its guide-on was retired on August 8, 2009 when the Chemical Company was activated.
The 231st name passed to a brand-new unit comprised of Maryland National Guardsmen from the disbanded 2/110th Field Artillery. Even as a new addition to the Maryland Army National Guard, we have responded to a variety of disasters in the State of Maryland, from historic blizzards in 2010, Hurricane Irene in 2011, Hurricane Sandy in 2012, Baltimore City's civil unrest in 2015, and we were staged and ready in September 2018 for Hurricane Florence, which thankfully spared Maryland. And since June 2017, while assigned to the C2CRE mission, 231st has been ready to respond to large scale CBRN incidents anywhere within the continental U.S. within 96 hours in order to save lives and minimize human suffering while mitigating hazardous effects.
The 231st stands ready to serve Civil Support and CBRN missions at home and abroad. Here we stand strong as Maryland’s only Chemical unit: “Dragon Warriors!”
