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Lineage and Honors Information as of 8 June 2012

HEADQUARTERS AND HEADQUARTERS DETACHMENT
71st ORDNANCE GROUP
(RAPTORS)

  • Constituted 17 July 1944 in the Army of the United States as Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment, 71st Ordnance Group
  • Activated 23 July 1944 in France
  • Inactivated 30 June 1946 in Germany
  • Redesignated 17 February 1947 as Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment, 361st Ordnance Group, and allotted to the Organized Reserves
  • Activated 1 March 1947 at Atlanta, Georgia
  • (Organized Reserves redesignated 25 March 1948 as the Organized Reserve Corps; redesignated 9 July 1952 as the Army Reserve)
  • Reorganized and redesignated 27 April 1949 as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 361st Ordnance Group
  • Inactivated 30 April 1954 at Atlanta, Georgia
  • Redesignated 19 April 1955 as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 71st Ordnance Group; concurrently withdrawn from the Army Reserve and allotted to the Regular Army
  • Activated 13 May 1955 in Germany
  • Reorganized and redesignated 20 November 1958 as Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment, 71st Ordnance Group
  • Inactivated 24 June 1959 in Germany
  • Redesignated 17 November 1962 as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 71st Ordnance Group
  • Activated 15 December 1962 in Korea
  • Inactivated 1 January 1966 in Korea
  • Activated 16 October 2005 at Fort Carson, Colorado as Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment, 71st Ordnance Group

CAMPAIGN PARTICIPATION CREDIT

  • World War II
  • Normandy
  • Northern France
  • Rhineland
  • Ardennes-Alsace
  • Central Europe

DECORATIONS

  • Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), Streamer embroidered EUROPEAN THEATER

BY ORDER OF THE SECRETARY OF THE ARMY:

ROBERT J. DALESSANDRO
Director, Center of Military History


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