Lineage and Honors Information as of 17 Mar 2020

461st Personnel Company

  • Constituted 21 January 1944 in the Army of the United States as the 461st Replacement Company
  • Activated 3 February 1944 in England
  • Inactivated 30 September 1945 in France
  • Allotted 26 February 1947 to the Organized Reserves
  • Activated 14 March 1947 at Atlanta, Georgia
  • (Organized Reserves redesignated 25 March 1948 as the Organized Reserve Corps; redesignated 9 July 1952 as the Army Reserve)
  • Location changed 1 December 1949 to Albany, Georgia
  • Inactivated 1 August 1950 at Albany, Georgia
  • Redesignated 24 November 1967 as the 461st Personnel Service Company
  • Activated 15 January 1968 at Atlanta, Georgia
  • Location changed 10 February 1971 to East Point, Georgia
  • Ordered into active military service 27 August 1990 at East Point, Georgia; released from active military service 24 June 1991 and reverted to reserve status
  • Reorganized and redesignated 17 September 1995 as the 461st Personnel Services Battalion
  • Elements ordered into active military service in 1997 at East Point, Georgia; released from active military service in 1998 and reverted to reserve status
  • Location changed 16 June 1999 to Decatur, Georgia
  • Ordered into active military service 2 January 2003-15 March 2003 at Decatur, Georgia; released from active military service 15 August 2003 and 18-19 June 2004 and reverted to reserve status
  • Reorganized and redesignated 27 October 2006 as the 461st Personnel Company
  • (Elements ordered into active military service for the War on Terrorism)

Campaign Participation Credit

  • World War II
  • Normandy
  • Northern France
  • Rhineland
  • Central Europe
  • War on Terrorism
  • Campaigns to be determined

Decorations

  • Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), Streamer embroidered CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST ASIA 2003-2004

By Order of the Secretary of the Army:

CHARLES R. BOWERY, JR.
Chief of Military History


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