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244th Engineer Battalion

  • Constituted 25 February 1943 in the Army of the United States as the 244th Engineer Combat Battalion
  • Activated 25 October 1943 at Camp Shelby, Mississippi
  • Inactivated 21 January 1946 at Camp Kilmer, New Jersey
  • Redesignated 26 March 1948 as the 444th Engineer Construction Battalion and allotted to the Organized Reserve Corps
  • Activated 1 February 1949 at Denver, Colorado
  • Inactivated 4 December 1950 at Denver, Colorado
  • Redesignated 25 June 1952 as the 244th Engineer Construction Battalion
  • (Organized Reserve Corps redesignated 9 July 1952 as the Army Reserve)
  • Redesignated 10 July 1959 as the 244th Engineer Battalion
  • Activated 1 September 1959 at Denver, Colorado
  • Location changed January - June 1980 to Aurora, Colorado; on 1 February 1990 to Denver, Colorado
  • Ordered into active military service 24 February 2003 at Denver, Colorado; released from active military service 17 July 2004 and reverted to reserve status
  • (Lettered companies inactivated 16 September 2008 at home stations; Support Company concurrently constituted and activated)
  • Ordered into active military service 30 January 2015 at Denver, Colorado

Campaign Participation Credit

  • World War II
  • Rhineland
  • Ardennes-Alsace
  • Central Europe
  • War on Terrorism
  • Campaigns to be determined

Decorations

None

By Order of the Secretary of the Army:

RICHARD W. STEWART
Chief of Military History


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