Lineage And Honors Information
219th Medical Detachment
- Constituted 4 March 1944 in the Army of the United States as the 219th Malaria Survey Unit
- Activated 20 March 1944 at Camp Grand, Illinois
- Reorganized and redesignated 5 August 1944 as the 219th Medical Composite Unit
- Redesignated 6 April 1945 as the 219th Malaria Survey Detachment
- Inactivated 15 April 1946 in Japan
- Redesignated 27 September 1951 as the 219th Preventive Medicine Survey Detachment and allotted to the Regular Army
- Activated 16 November 1951 in Korea
- Reorganized and redesignated 1 February 1953 as the 219th Medical Detachment
- Inactivated 2 May 1955
- Activated 8 January 1968 at Fort George G. Meade, Maryland
- Inactivated 16 February 1970 in Vietnam
- Activated 16 February 1987 in Korea
- Inactivated 15 October 1993 in Korea
- Activated 16 May 2011 at Fort Bliss, Texas
Campaign Participation Credit
- World War II
- Ryukyus
- Korean War
- UN Summer-Fall Offensive
- Second Korean Winter
- Korea, Summer-Fall 1952
- Third Korean Winter
- Korea, Summer 1953
- Vietnam
- Counteroffensive, Phase IV
- Counteroffensive, Phase V
Counteroffensive, Phase VI - Tet 69/Counteroffensive
- Summer-Fall 1969
- Winter-Spring 1970
- War on Terrorism
- Campaigns to be determined
Decorations
- Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), Streamer embroidered VIETNAM 1968-1969
- Republic of Korea Presidential Unit Citation, Streamer embroidered KOREA 1952-1953
By Order of the Secretary of the Army:
RICHARD W. STEWART, PH.D.
Chief of Military History