Lineages and Honors Information
Transportation
Lineage and Honors Information as of 1 May 2019
208th Transportation Company
- Constituted 10 March 1943 in the Army of the United States as the 2124th Quartermaster Truck Company, Aviation
- Activated 1 April 1943 at Santa Maria, California
- Inactivated 8 December 1945 at Camp Stoneman, California
- Converted and redesignated 1 August 1946 as the 2124th Transportation Corps Truck Company
- Redesignated 10 September 1948 as the 208th Transportation Base Depot Company and allotted to the Organized Reserve Corps
- Activated 1 October 1948 at Chicago, Illinois
- Inactivated 30 March 1951 at Chicago, Illinois
- (Organized Reserve Corps redesignated 9 July 1952 as the Army Reserve)
- Redesignated 18 September 1956 as the 208th Transportation Company and activated at Canton, Illinois
- Inactivated 31 January 1968 at Canton, Illinois
- Activated 16 October 1995 at Tucson, Arizona
- Ordered into active military service 7 December 2003 at Tucson, Arizona; released from active military service 3 June 2005 and reverted to reserve status
- Location changed 1 August 2011 to Red Rock, Arizona
Campaign Participation Credit
- World War II
- China Offensive
- Central Burma
- War on Terrorism
- Iraq:
- Transition of Iraq
- Iraqi Governance
Decorations
- Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), Streamer embroidered IRAQ 2004
By Order of the Secretary of the Army:
CHARLES R. BOWERY, JR.
Chief of Military History