Lineage And Honors Information
Lineage and Honors Information as of 28 June 2016
Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment
718th Transportation Battalion
- Constituted 15 August 1917 in the National Army as the 53d Engineers
- Organized in February 1918 at Camp Dix, New Jersey, as the 53d Engineers Railway Operation Battalion
- Converted and redesignated 7 September 1918 as the 53d Regiment, Transportation Corps
- Demobilized 12 November 1918 in France
- Reconstituted 18 October 1927 in the Regular Army as the 53d Engineer Railway Battalion
- Redesignated 23 September 1933 as the 53d Engineer Battalion
- Redesignated 21 February 1941 as the 718th Engineer Battalion
- Redesignated 1 April 1942 as the 718th Engineer Railway Operating Battalion
- Converted and redesignated 16 November 1942 as the 718th Railway Operating Battalion, Transportation Corps
- Ordered into active military service 7 December 1943 and organized
- 14 December 1943 at Fort Sam Houston, Texas
- Inactivated 4 December 1945 at Camp Kilmer, New Jersey
- Redesignated 12 October 1948 as the 718th Transportation Railway Operating Battalion; concurrently withdrawn from the Regular Army and allotted to the Organized Reserve Corps
- Activated 22 October 1948 at Springfield, Ohio
- Inactivated 2 November 1951 at Springfield, Ohio
- (Organized Reserve Corps redesignated 9 July 1952 as the Army Reserve)
- Redesignated 13 February 1959 as the 718th Transportation Battalion
- Activated 3 April 1959 with Headquarters at Columbus, Ohio
- Headquarters and Headquarters Company reorganized and redesignated 7 January 1963 as Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment, 718th Transportation Battalion; remainder of battalion disbanded 15 January 1963
- Ordered into active military service 31 October 2010 at Columbus, Ohio; released from active military service 4 December 2011 and reverted to reserve status
Campaign Participation Credit
- World War I
- Streamer without inscription
- World War II
- Northern France
- Rhineland
- Ardennes-Alsace
- Central Europe
- War on Terrorism
- Campaigns to be determined
Decorations
- Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), Streamer embroidered EUROPEAN THEATER
- Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), Streamer embroidered SOUTHWEST ASIA 2010-2011
By Order of the Secretary of the Army:
CHARLES R. BOWERY, JR.
Chief of Military History