Lineages and Honors Information
Transportation

Lineage and Honors Information as of 8 March 2019

724th Transportation Company

  • Constituted 29 November 1948 in the Organized Reserve Corps as the 724th Transportation Truck Company
  • Activated 31 December 1948 at Chicago, Illinois
  • Inactivated 18 December 1950 at Chicago, Illinois
  • (Organized Reserve Corps redesignated 9 July 1952 as the Army Reserve)
  • Redesignated 15 August 1955 as the 724th Transportation Company, and activated at Chicago, Illinois
  • Location changed 21 September 1957 to Oak Park, Illinois; on 19 January 1964 to Forest Park, Illinois
  • Ordered into active military service 13 May 1968 at Forest Park, Illinois; released from active military service 9 December 1969 and reverted to reserve status
  • Location changed 1 June 1970 to Canton, Illinois; on 16 March 1972 to Peoria, Illinois
  • Ordered into active military service 20 September 1990 at Peoria, Illinois; released from active military service 26 April 1991 and reverted to reserve status with location at Bartonville, Illinois
  • Ordered into active military service 7 December 2003 at Bartonville, Illinois; released from active military service 3 June 2005 and reverted to reserve status
  • Ordered into active military service 4 August 2009 at Bartonville, Illinois; released from active military service 7 September 2010 and reverted to reserve status

Campaign Participation Credit

  • Southwest Asia
  • Defense of Saudi Arabia
  • Liberation and Defense of Kuwait
  • Cease-Fire
  • War on Terrorism
  • Campaigns to be determined

Decorations

  • Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), Streamer embroidered SOUTHWEST ASIA 1990-1991
  • Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), Streamer embroidered SOUTHWEST ASIA 2004
  • Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), Streamer embroidered IRAQ 2009-2010

By Order of the Secretary of the Army:

CHARLES R. BOWERY, JR.
Chief of Military History


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