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Lineage and Honors Information as of 9 October 2015

865th Engineer Detachment

  • Constituted 22 November 1944 in the Army of the United States as the 2865th Engineer Gas Generating Detachment
  • Activated 8 January 1945 on Saipan
  • Inactivated 19 December 1945 on Saipan
  • Redesignated 19 November 1965 as the 865th Engineer Detachment and allotted to the Regular Army
  • Activated 17 November 1965 at Fort Belvoir, Virginia
  • Inactivated 26 December 1971 at Cha Rang, Vietnam
  • Activated 1 December 1980 at Fort Bragg, North Carolina
  • Inactivated 15 September 1997 at Fort Bragg, North Carolina
  • Withdrawn 3 May 2004 from the Regular Army and allotted to the Army Reserve
  • Activated 16 September 2010 at Fort Bragg, North Carolina
  • Ordered into active military service 14 November 2014 at Fort Bragg, North Carolina

Campaign Participation Credit

  • World War II
  • Asiatic-Pacific Theater,
  • Streamer without inscription
  • Vietnam
  • Counteroffensive, Phase II
  • Counteroffensive, Phase III
  • Tet Counteroffensive
  • Counteroffensive, Phase IV
  • Counteroffensive, Phase V
  • Counteroffensive, Phase VI
  • Tet 69/Counteroffensive
  • Summer-Fall 1969
  • Winter-Spring 1970
  • Sanctuary Counteroffensive
  • Counteroffensive, Phase VII
  • Consolidation I
  • Consolidation II
  • Southwest Asia
  • Defense of Saudi Arabia
  • Liberation and Defense of Kuwait
  • War on Terrorism
  • Campaigns to be determined

Decorations

  • Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), Streamer embroidered PACIFIC THEATER

By Order of the Secretary of the Army:

RICHARD W. STEWART
Chief of Military History


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