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302d Transportation Company

Lineage and Honors Information as of 20 November 2008

302d Transportation Company Lineage

Constituted 1 April 1943 in the Army of the United States as Company A, 519th Port Battalion, Transportation Corps

Activated 25 June 1943 at Indiantown Gap Military Reservation, Pennsylvania

Reorganized and redesignated 25 June 1943 as the 302d Port Company

Inactivated 14 November 1945 at Camp Kilmer, New Jersey

Allotted 11 March 1947 to the Organized Reserves

Activated 26 March 1947 at Newport News, Virginia

Redesignated 13 October 1947 as the 302d Transportation Port Company

(Organized Reserves redesignated 25 March 1948 as the Organized Reserve Corps; redesignated 9 July 1952 as the Army Reserve)

Inactivated 30 June 1950 at Newport News, Virginia

Redesignated 3 April 1959 as the 302d Transportation Company

Activated 11 May 1959 at Hampton, Virginia

Location changed 12 June 1959 to Newport News, Virginia

Inactivated 15 February 1963 at Newport News, Virginia

Activated 15 November 1974 at Hampton, Virginia

Location changed 1 November 1993 to Fort Eustis, Virginia

Ordered into active military service 7 December 2003 at Fort Eustis, Virginia; released from active military service 3 June 2005 and reverted to reserve status

302d Transportation Company Honors

Campaign Participation Credit

World War II: Normandy (with arrowhead), Northern France, Rhineland

War on Terrorism: Campaigns to be determined

Decorations

Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), Streamer embroidered IRAQ 2004

French Croix de Guerre with Palm, World War II, Streamer embroidered NORMANDY BEACHES

Cited in the Order of the Day of the Belgian Army for action at Antwerp


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