Lineage And Honors Information
Lineage and Honors Information as of 20 May 2015
316th Engineer Company
- Constituted 19 March 1942 in the Army of the United States as Company A, 401st Engineer Water Supply Battalion
- Activated 18 April 1942 at Plattsburg Barracks, New York
- Reorganized and redesignated 9 October 1944 as the 1513th Engineer Water Supply Company
- Inactivated 20 October 1945 at Leghorn, Italy
- Redesignated 4 November 1947 as the 316th Engineer Water Supply Company and allotted to the Organized Reserves
- Activated 17 November 1947 at Shamokin, Pennsylvania
- (Organized Reserves redesignated 25 March 1948 as the Organized Reserve Corps; redesignated 9 July 1952 as the Army Reserve)
- Reorganized and redesignated 11 January 1955 as the 316th Engineer Company
- Inactivated 9 January 1956 at Shamokin, Pennsylvania
- Activated 16 October 2010 at Chattanooga, Tennessee
Campaign Participation Credit
- Word War II
- Sicily (with arrowhead)
- Naples-Foggia
- Rome-Arno
- North Apennines
- Rhineland
- Ardennes-Alsace
- Central Europe
DECORATIONS
- Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), Streamer embroidered EUROPEAN THEATER
BY ORDER OF THE SECRETARY OF THE ARMY:
RICHARD W. STEWART, Ph.D.
Chief of Military History