546th Maintenance Company
(Red Dogs)
Lineage and Honors Information as of 15 August 2005
546th Maintenance Company Lineage
Constituted 18 October 1927 in the Regular Army as Company B, 8th Motor Repair Battalion
Redesignated 10 February 1936 as Company B, 57th Quartermaster Regiment
Activated 1 February 1941 at Camp Shelby, Mississippi
Converted and redesignated 1 August 1942 as Company B, 57th Ordnance Regiment
Reorganized and redesignated 30 September 1942 as the 896th Ordnance Heavy Maintenance Company
Reorganized and redesignated 7 July 1943 as the 896th Ordnance Heavy Automotive Maintenance Company
Inactivated 4 December 1945 at Camp Kilmer, New Jersey
Redesignated 10 February 1947 as the 546th Ordnance Heavy Automotive Maintenance Company
Redesignated 6 May 1947 as the 546th Ordnance Medium Automotive Maintenance Company
Activated 20 June 1947 in Germany
Reorganized and redesignated 1 April 1953 as the 546th Ordnance Company
Reorganized and redesignated 11 August 1965 as Company C, 51st Maintenance Battalion
Reorganized and redesignated 21 December 1972 as the 546th Maintenance Company
546th Maintenance Company Honors
Campaign Participation Credit
World War II: Normandy; Northern France; Rhineland; Ardennes-Alsace; Central Europe
Decorations
None