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591st Medical Company
(Responsive and Relentless)

Lineage and Honors Information as of 17 June 2002

591st Medical Company Lineage

Constituted 9 February 1943 in the Army of the United States as Company B, 429th Medical Ambulance Battalion

Activated 4 March 1943 at Camp Van Dorn, Mississippi

Reorganized and redesignated 5 September 1943 as the 591st Ambulance Company, Motor

Reorganized and redesignated 15 March 1945 as the 591st Motor Ambulance Company

Inactivated 13 August 1946 at Camp Kilmer, New Jersey

Redesignated 21 August 1950 as the 591st Medical Ambulance Company

Activated 10 September 1950 at Fort Campbell, Kentucky

Allotted 19 June 1951 to the Regular Army

Redesignated 20 April 1953 as the 591st Medical Company

Inactivated 26 June 1972 at Fort George G. Meade, Maryland

Activated 16 June 2002 at Fort Sam Houston, Texas

591st Medical Company Honors

Campaign Participation Credit

World War II - EAME: Normandy; Northern France; Rhineland; Ardennes-Alsace; Central Europe

Decorations

None


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