Lineage And Honors Information
Lineage and Honors Information as of 28 January 2015
996th Engineer Company
- Constituted 7 July 1942 in the Army of the United States as Company E, 119th Armored Engineer Battalion
- Activated 15 September 1942 at Camp Campbell, Kentucky
- Reorganized and redesignated 1 December 1943 as the 996th Engineer Treadway Bridge Company
- Inactivated 24 October 1945 at Camp Shanks, New York
- Allotted 26 February 1947 to the Organized Reserves
- Activated 12 March 1947 at Lawrence, Massachusetts
- (Organized Reserves redesignated 25 March 1948 as the Organized Reserve Corps; redesignated 9 July 1952 as the Army Reserve)
- Reorganized and redesignated 25 June 1952 as the 996th Engineer Float Bridge Company
- Reorganized and redesignated 31 March 1954 as the 996th Engineer Company
- Inactivated 15 May 1959 at Lawrence, Massachusetts
- Activated 16 October 1986 at Negaunee, Michigan
- Location changed 10 January 1990 to Marquette, Michigan
- Inactivated 15 June 1999 at Marquette, Michigan
- Activated 16 September 2008 at Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Campaign Participation Credit
- World War II
- Normandy (with arrowhead)
- Northern France
- Rhineland
- Ardennes-Alsace
- Central Europe
DECORATIONS
None
BY ORDER OF THE SECRETARY OF THE ARMY:
RICHARD W. STEWART, PH.D.
Center of Military History