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Lineage and Honors Information as of 12 September 2013

HEADQUARTERS AND HEADQUARTERS DETACHMENT
719th TRANSPORTATION BATTALION

  • Parent unit constituted 27 March 1918 in the American Expeditionary Forces as the Provisional Depot Battalion, Railway Operating Troops
  • Organized 9 April 1918 in France
  • Company C, Provisional Operating Battalion, Railway Troops, redesignated 27 May 1918 as the 58th Standard Gauge Operating Battalion
  • Redesignated 7 June 1918 as the 58th Engineer Battalion, Railway Operating
  • Converted and redesignated 7 September 1918 as the 58th Regiment, Transportation Corps
  • (Companies A, B, C, and D, 58th Regiment, Transportation Corps, reorganized and redesignated 12 November 1918 as Companies 63, 64, 65, and 66, Transportation Corps, and regimental headquarters redesignated Headquarters Detachment, Transportation Corps at Large)
  • (Company 66, Transportation Crops, demobilized 8 May 1919 at Camp Merritt, New Jersey; Companies 63, 64, and 65, Transportation Corps, demobilized in July 1919 at Camp Dix, New Jersey)
  • Reconstituted 24 September 1936 in the Regular Army and consolidated with the 58th Engineer Battalion, Railway Operating (constituted 18 October 1927 in the Regular Army) and consolidated unit designated as the 58th Engineer Battalion, Railway Operating
  • Redesignated 21 February 1941 as the 719th Engineer Battalion, Railway Operating
  • Activated 1 September 1942 at Camp Claiborne, Louisiana, as the 719th Engineer Railway Operating Battalion
  • Converted and redesignated 16 November 1942 as the 719th Railway Operating Battalion, Transportation Corps
  • Inactivated 20 November 1945 at Camp Claiborne, Louisiana
  • Redesignated 9 December 1947 as the 719th Transportation Railway Operating Battalion; concurrently withdrawn from the Regular Army and allotted to the Organized Reserves
  • Activated 18 December 1947 at Houston, Texas
  • (Organized Reserves redesignated 25 March 1948 as the Organized Reserve Corps; redesignated 9 July 1952 as the Army Reserve)
  • Inactivated 20 December 1950 at Houston, Texas
  • Activated 1 November 1951 at Houston, Texas
  • Reorganized and redesignated 20 October 1952 as the 719th Transportation Battalion
  • Inactivated 31 December 1965 at Houston, Texas
  • Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment activated 16 September 2000 at Boston, Massachusetts
  • Ordered into active military service 9 August 2002 at Boston, Massachusetts; released from active military service 7 August 2004 and reverted to reserve status
  • Ordered into active military service 13 April 2007 at Boston, Massachusetts; released from active military service 16 May 2008 and reverted to reserve status
  • Location changed 18 April 2012 to Brockton, Massachusetts

Campaign Participation Credit

  • World War I
  • Streamer without inscription
  • World War II
  • Rome-Arno
  • North Apennines
  • War on Terrorism
  •   Iraq:
  • Iraqi Surge

Decorations

  • Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), Streamer embroidered IRAQ 2007-2008

By Order of the Secretary of the Army:

Robert J. Dalessandro
Director, Center of Military History


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