Lineage And Honors Information
Lineage and Honors Information as of 30 April 2012
HEADQUARTERS AND HEADQUARTERS DETACHMENT
79th ORDNANCE BATTALION
- Constituted 29 May 1943 in the Army of the United States as Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment, 228th Ordnance Base Group
- Activated 5 August 1943 at the Ordnance Training Center, Santa Anita, California
- Reorganized and redesignated 3 January 1945 as Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment, 228th Ordnance Base Depot
- Inactivated 6 November 1945 at Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland
- Redesignated 27 December 1946 as Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment, 87th Ordnance Base Depot
- Activated 20 January 1947 in Germany
- Inactivated 20 October 1947 in Germany
- Activated 16 February 1948 in Korea
- Inactivated 25 January 1949 in Korea
- Allotted 24 May 1949 to the Regular Army
- Activated 7 June 1949 at Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland
- Reorganized and redesignated 23 February 1950 as Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment, 79th Ordnance Battalion
- Inactivated 1 April 1954 in Korea
- Activated 16 December 1957 at Fort Bliss, Texas
- Reorganized and redesignated 20 July 1966 as Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment, 79th Maintenance Battalion
- Inactivated 27 February 1973 at Oakland Army Base, California
- Activated 16 June 1998 at Fort Sam Houston, Texas as Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment, 79th Ordnance Battalion
CAMPAIGN PARTICIPATION CREDIT
- World War II
- Normandy
- Northern France
- Rhineland
- Korean War
- CCF Intervention
- First UN Counteroffensive
- CCF Spring Counteroffensive
- UN Summer-Fall Offensive
- Second Korean Winter
- Korea, Summer-Fall 1952
- Third Korean Winter
- Korea, Summer 1953
- Vietnam
- Defense
- Counteroffensive
- 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
- Cease-Fire
- War on Terrorism
- Campaigns to be determined
DECORATIONS
- Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), Streamer embroidered KOREA
- Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), Streamer embroidered VIETNAM 1965-1968
- Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), Streamer embroidered VIETNAM 1970-1971
- Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), Streamer embroidered VIETNAM 1971-1972
- Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), Streamer embroidered IRAQ 2006-2008
- Republic of Korea Presidential Unit Citation, Streamer embroidered KOREA 1950-1952
BY ORDER OF THE SECRETARY OF THE ARMY:
ROBERT J. DALESSANDRO
Director, Center of Military History