659th Maintenance Company

Lineage and Honors Information as of 25 April 2007

659th Maintenance Company Lineage

Constituted 2 November 1918 in the National Army as Service Park Unit No. 485 and organized at Fort Sam Houston, Texas

Redesignated in December 1919 as Service Park Unit No. 367

Allotted 15 July 1920 to the Regular Army

Reorganized and redesignated 29 March 1921 as Motor Repair Section No. 83

Inactivated 15 August 1922 at Fort Bliss, Texas

Activated 31 August 1923 at Fort Sam Houston, Texas

Redesignated 23 March 1925 as the 83d Motor Repair Section

Reorganized and redesignated 1 May 1936 as Company C, 39th Quartermaster Regiment

Reorganized and redesignated 1 June 1940 as Company C, 68th Quartermaster Battalion

Reorganized and redesignated 1 April 1942 as Company C, 68th Quartermaster Medium Maintenance Battalion

Converted and redesignated 1 August 1942 as Company C, 68th Ordnance Medium Maintenance Battalion

Reorganized and redesignated 4 November 1942 as the 3411th Ordnance Medium Maintenance Company

Reorganized and redesignated 17 November 1944 as the 3411th Ordnance Medium Automotive Maintenance Company

Inactivated 20 February 1946 at Camp Kilmer, New Jersey

Redesignated 10 February 1947 as the 559th Ordnance Medium Automotive Maintenance Company

Activated 20 June 1947 in Germany

Reorganized and redesignated 1 April 1953 as the 559th Ordnance Company

Inactivated 15 March 1954 in Germany

Activated 1 November 1962 in the Canal Zone

Reorganized and redesignated 17 January 1969 as the 659th Maintenance Company

Inactivated 10 March 1969 in the Canal Zone

Activated 3 May 1971 at Fort Bragg, North Carolina

659th Maintenance Company Honors

Campaign Participation Credit

World War II-EAME: Streamer without inscription

Southwest Asia: Defense of Saudi Arabia; Liberation and Defense of Kuwait; Cease-Fire

Decorations

Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army) for EUROPEAN THEATER

Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army) for SOUTHWEST ASIA 1990-1991