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