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Lineage and Honors Information as of 12 September 2013

704th ENGINEER COMPANY

  • Constituted 8 December 1942 in the Army of the United States as the 704th Engineer Petroleum Distribution Unit
  • Activated 20 December 1942 at Camp Claiborne, Louisiana
  • Redesignated 24 July 1943 as the 704th Engineer Petroleum Distribution Company
  • Inactivated 5 December 1946 at Fort Lewis, Washington
  • Redesignated 25 March 1948 as the 704th Engineer Dump Truck Company and allotted to the Organized Reserve Corps
  • Activated 9 April 1948 at Utica, New York
  • (Organized Reserve Corps redesignated 9 July 1952 as the Army Reserve)
  • Ordered into active military service 14 August 1950 at Utica, New York
  • Reorganized and redesignated 27 March 1954 as the 704th Engineer Company
  • Released from active military service 26 April 1955 and reverted to reserve status
  • Inactivated 1 August 1959 at Utica, New York
  • Activated 16 February 1983 at Texarkana, Arkansas
  • Location changed 16 November 1993 to Pine Bluff, Arkansas
  • Inactivated 15 January 1996 at Pine Bluff, Arkansas
  • Activated 17 September 2008 at Hot Springs, Arkansas
  • Ordered into active military service 2 November 2012 at Hot Springs, Arkansas

CAMPAIGN PARTICIPATION CREDIT

  • World War II
  • Naples-Foggia
  • Rome-Arno
  • Korean War
  • CCF Intervention
  • First UN Counteroffensive
  • CCF Spring Offensive
  • UN Summer-Fall Offensive
  • Second Korean Winter
  • Korea, Summer-Fall 1952
  • Third Korean Winter
  • Korea, Summer 1953
  • War on Terrorism
  • Campaigns to be determined

DECORATIONS

  • Republic of Korea Presidential Unit Citation, Streamer embroidered KOREA 1950-1952
  • Republic of Korea Presidential Unit Citation, Streamer embroidered KOREA 1952-1953

BY ORDER OF THE SECRETARY OF THE ARMY:

ROBERT J. DALESSANDRO
Director, Center of Military History


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