Lineages and Honors Information
Transportation
Lineage and Honors Information as of 26 March 2018
401th Transportation Company
- Constituted 6 November 1943 in the Army of the United States as the 401st Quartermaster Truck Company
- Activated 29 November 1943 at Camp Gruber, Oklahoma
- Inactivated 2 April 1946 at Camp Kilmer, New Jersey
- Converted and redesignated 1 August 1946 as the 401st Transportation Corps Truck Company
- Redesignated 1 February 1949 as the 401st Transportation Truck Company and allotted to the Organized Reserve Corps
- Activated 10 March 1949 at Providence, Rhode Island
- Inactivated 13 September 1949 at Providence, Rhode Island
- Activated 6 November 1950 at Wilmington, Delaware
- (Organized Reserve Corps redesignated on 9 July 1952 as the Army Reserve)
- Reorganized and redesignated 2 June 1953 as the 401st Transportation Company
- Inactivated 25 May 1959 at Wilmington, Delaware
- Activated 16 April 1995 at Battle Creek, Michigan
- Ordered into active military service 15 August 2003 (additional element ordered into active military service 7 December 2003) at Battle Creek, Michigan; released from active military service 14 January 2005 (additional element released from active military service 3 June 2005) and reverted to reserve status
- Location changed 17 June 2011 to Augusta, Michigan
Campaign Participation Credit
- World War II
- Normandy
- Northern France
- Ardennes-Alsace
- Central Europe
- War on Terrorism
- Campaigns to be determined
Decorations
- Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), Streamer embroidered SOUTHWEST ASIA 2003-2004
By Order of the Secretary of the Army:
CHARLES R. BOWERY, JR.
Chief of Military History