Lineage and Honors Information as of 9 October 2015
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
By Order of the Secretary of the Army:
RICHARD W. STEWART
Chief of Military History
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