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Headquarters and Headquarters Company
528th Sustainment Brigade

  • Constituted 4 December 1942 in the Army of the United States as the 528th Quartermaster Service Battalion
  • Activated 15 December 1942 at Camp McCain, Mississippi
  • Battalion broken up 18 January 1944 and its elements reorganized and redesignated as follows:
  • Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment as Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment, 528th Quartermaster Battalion
  • (Companies A, B, C, and D as the 4098th, 4099th, 4100th, and 4128th Quartermaster Service Companies, respectively – hereafter separate lineages)
  • Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment, 528th Quartermaster Battalion reorganized and redesignated 24 May 1946 as Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment, 528th Quartermaster Battalion, Mobile
  • Converted and redesignated 1 August 1946 as Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment, 528th Transportation Corps Truck Battalion
  • Converted and redesignated 1 February 1947 as Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment, 528th Quartermaster Battalion
  • Inactivated 20 November 1947 in France
  • Redesignated 12 October 1948 as Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment, 426th Quartermaster Battalion, and allotted to the Organized Reserve Corps
  • Activated 22 October 1948 at Clarksburg, West Virginia
  • Inactivated 8 November 1950 at Clarksburg, West Virginia
  • Redesignated 15 January 1952 as Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment, 528th Quartermaster Battalion; concurrently withdrawn from the Organized Reserve Corps and allotted to the Regular Army
  • Activated 1 February 1952 at Camp Atterbury, Indiana
  • Inactivated 25 November 1966 at Fort Lee, Virginia
  • Redesignated 5 September 1969 as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 528th Quartermaster Battalion
  • Activated 25 September 1969 in Vietnam
  • Inactivated 15 April 1971 in Vietnam
  • Consolidated 16 May 1987 with the 13th Support Battalion (active) (constituted 3 June 1986 in the Regular Army and activated at Fort Bragg, North Carolina); consolidated unit concurrently redesignated as the 528th Support Battalion
  • Inactivated 17 October 2005 at Fort Bragg, North Carolina
  • Headquarters redesignated 18 October 2007 as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 528th Sustainment Brigade (organic elements concurrently disbanded)
  • Activated 16 December 2008 at Fort Bragg, North Carolina

Campaign Participation Credit

  • World War II
  • Sicily (with arrowhead)
  • Rome-Arno
  • Southern France (with arrowhead)
  • Rhineland
  • Ardennes-Alsace
  • Central Europe
  • Vietnam
  • Summer-Fall 1969
  • Winter-Spring 1970
  • Sanctuary Counteroffensive
  • Counteroffensive, Phase VII
  • Southwest Asia
  • Defense of Saudi Arabia
  • Liberation and Defense of Kuwait
  • War on Terrorism
  • Campaigns to be determined

Decorations

  • Valorous Unit Award, Streamer embroidered IRAQ-KUWAIT 1991
  • Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), Streamer embroidered CENTRAL ASIA 2001-2004

By Order of the Secretary of the Army:

JEFFREY J. CLARKE
Chief of Military History


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