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549th Quartermaster Company

Lineage and Honors Information as of 22 March 2007

549th Quartermaster Company Lineage

Constituted 13 March 1942 in the Army of the United States as Company D, 62d Quartermaster Battalion

Redesignated 1 April 1942 as Company D, 62d Quartermaster Laundry Battalion

Activated 25 May 1942 at Camp Gordon, Georgia

Reorganized and redesignated 10 October 1943 as the 549th Quartermaster Laundry Company

Inactivated 8 March 1946 at Camp Kilmer, New Jersey

Activated 9 April 1946 at Camp Lee, Virginia

Allotted 21 February 1949 to the Regular Army

Reorganized and redesignated 1 April 1954 as the 549th Quartermaster Company

Inactivated 21 December 1974 on Okinawa

Activated 1 October 1980 at Fort Story, Virginia

Inactivated 15 September 1995 at Fort Story, Virginia

Activated 16 October 2006 at Fort Carson, Colorado

549th Quartermaster Company Honors

Campaign Participation Credit

World War II: Sicily; Naples-Foggia; Rome-Arno; Southern France (with arrowhead); Rhineland; Ardennes-Alsace; Central Europe

Korean War: UN Defensive; UN Offensive; CCF Intervention; First UN Counteroffensive; CCF Spring Offensive; UN Summer-Fall Offensive; Second Korean Winter; Korea, Summer-Fall 1952; Third Korean Winter; Korea, Summer 1953

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 PACIFIC AREA

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

Republic of Vietnam Cross of Gallantry with Gold Star for PACIFIC AREA


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