Lineage and Honors Information as of 13 November 2009
Headquarters and Headquarters Company
528th Sustainment Brigade
- Constituted 4 December 1942 in the Army of the United States as the 528th Quartermaster Service Battalion
- Activated 15 December 1942 at Camp McCain, Mississippi
- Battalion broken up 18 January 1944 and its elements reorganized and redesignated as follows:
- Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment as Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment, 528th Quartermaster Battalion
- (Companies A, B, C, and D as the 4098th, 4099th, 4100th, and 4128th Quartermaster Service Companies, respectively – hereafter separate lineages)
- Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment, 528th Quartermaster Battalion reorganized and redesignated 24 May 1946 as Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment, 528th Quartermaster Battalion, Mobile
- Converted and redesignated 1 August 1946 as Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment, 528th Transportation Corps Truck Battalion
- Converted and redesignated 1 February 1947 as Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment, 528th Quartermaster Battalion
- Inactivated 20 November 1947 in France
- Redesignated 12 October 1948 as Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment, 426th Quartermaster Battalion, and allotted to the Organized Reserve Corps
- Activated 22 October 1948 at Clarksburg, West Virginia
- Inactivated 8 November 1950 at Clarksburg, West Virginia
- Redesignated 15 January 1952 as Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment, 528th Quartermaster Battalion; concurrently withdrawn from the Organized Reserve Corps and allotted to the Regular Army
- Activated 1 February 1952 at Camp Atterbury, Indiana
- Inactivated 25 November 1966 at Fort Lee, Virginia
- Redesignated 5 September 1969 as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 528th Quartermaster Battalion
- Activated 25 September 1969 in Vietnam
- Inactivated 15 April 1971 in Vietnam
- Consolidated 16 May 1987 with the 13th Support Battalion (active) (constituted 3 June 1986 in the Regular Army and activated at Fort Bragg, North Carolina); consolidated unit concurrently redesignated as the 528th Support Battalion
- Inactivated 17 October 2005 at Fort Bragg, North Carolina
- Headquarters redesignated 18 October 2007 as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 528th Sustainment Brigade (organic elements concurrently disbanded)
- Activated 16 December 2008 at Fort Bragg, North Carolina
Campaign Participation Credit
- World War II
- Sicily (with arrowhead)
- Rome-Arno
- Southern France (with arrowhead)
- Rhineland
- Ardennes-Alsace
- Central Europe
- Vietnam
- Summer-Fall 1969
- Winter-Spring 1970
- Sanctuary Counteroffensive
- Counteroffensive, Phase VII
- Southwest Asia
- Defense of Saudi Arabia
- Liberation and Defense of Kuwait
- War on Terrorism
- Campaigns to be determined
Decorations
- Valorous Unit Award, Streamer embroidered IRAQ-KUWAIT 1991
- Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), Streamer embroidered CENTRAL ASIA 2001-2004
By Order of the Secretary of the Army:
JEFFREY J. CLARKE
Chief of Military History
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