Lineages and Honors Information
Transportation

Lineage and Honors Information as of 10 Jan 2020

481st Transportation Company

  • Constituted 22 June 1944 in the Army of the United States as the 60th Transportation Corps Composite Company
  • Activated 20 July 1944 in Australia
  • Reorganized and redesignated 15 March 1945 as the 60th Transportation Corps Service Company
  • Inactivated 1 April 1946 in the Philippine Islands
  • Disbanded 2 May 1947
  • Reconstituted 31 July 1947 in the Organized Reserves as the 481st Transportation Port Company
  • Activated 25 August 1947 at Oakland, California
  • (Organized Reserves redesignated 25 March 1948 as the Organized Reserve Corps; redesignated 9 July 1952 as the Army Reserve)
  • Inactivated 30 November 1950 at Oakland, California
  • Redesignated 24 November 1967 as the 481st Transportation Company
  • Activated 20 January 1968 at the Presidio of San Francisco, California
  • Location changed 1 July 1972 to Oakland, California; on 1 May 1976 to Rio Vista, California; on 23 October 1990 to Stockton, California; on 1 March 1999 to Vallejo, California
  • Ordered into active military service 5 December 2003 at Vallejo, California; released from active military service 8 March 2005 and reverted to reserve status
  • Elements ordered into active military service 22 September 2004 at Vallejo, California; released from active military service 26 December 2006 and reverted to reserve status
  • Element ordered into active military service 14 December 2011 at Vallejo, California; released from active military service 13 January 2013 and reverted to reserve status
  • Location changed 30 October 2012 to Port Hueneme, California
  • Elements ordered into active military service 1 November 2012 at Port Hueneme, California; released from active military service 12 March 2015 and reverted to reserve status
  • Elements ordered into active military service 20 October 2016 at Port Hueneme, California; released from active military service 23 November 2017 and reverted to reserve status

Campaign Participation Credit

  • World War II
  • New Guinea
  • Luzon
  • War on Terrorism
  • Campaigns to be determined

Decorations

None

By Order of the Secretary of the Army:

CHARLES R. BOWERY, JR.
Chief of Military History


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