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590th Quartermaster Company

Lineage and Honors Information as of 22 July 2004

590th Quartermaster Company Lineage

Constituted 18 October 1927 in the Regular Army as the 5th Railhead Company

Redesignated 1May 1936 as the 90th Quartermaster Company

Activated 1 August 1940 at Fort Knox, Kentucky

Redesignated 1 April 1942 as the 90th Quartermaster Railhead Company

Reorganized and redesignated 17 February 1949 as the 90th Quartermaster Subsistence Supply Company

Reorganized and redesignated 20 October 1953 as the 90th Quartermaster Company

Inactivated 1 February 1955 in France

Redesignated 3 May 1960 as the 590th Quartermaster Company

Activated 10 May 1960 on Okinawa

Reorganized and redesignated 1 September 1966 as the 590th Supply and Service Company

Inactivated 20 December 1968 in Thailand

Activated 1 September 1980 at Fort Ord, California

Reorganized and redesignated 17 August 1993 as the 590th Quartermaster Company

590th Quartermaster Company Honors

Campaign Participation Credit

World War II-EAME: Naples-Foggia (with arrowhead); Anzio (with arrowhead); Rome-Arno; North Apennines; Po Valley

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

Decorations

Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), for ITALY

Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), for SOUTHWEST ASIA


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