Lineages and Honors Information
Engineer Company

Lineage and Honors Information as of 22 March 2021

515th Engineer Company

  • Constituted 24 March 1942 in the Regular Army as the 428th Engineer Company
  • Activated 22 April 1942 at Camp Claiborne, Louisiana, as the 428th Engineer Dump Truck Company
  • Inactivated 13 December 1945 at Fort Lewis, Washington
  • Redesignated 30 January 1947 as the 515th Engineer Dump Truck Company
  • Redesignated 22 March 1949 as the 515th Engineer Petroleum Distribution Company
  • Activated 16 May 1949 at Fort Belvoir, Virginia
  • Reorganized and redesignated 29 August 1951 as the 515th Engineer Pipeline Company
  • Redesignated 1 December 1953 as the 515th Engineer Company
  • Inactivated 21 December 1956 at Fort Belvoir, Virginia
  • Activated 22 March 1968 at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri
  • Inactivated 15 September 1995 at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri
  • Activated 16 May 2007 at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri

Campaign Participation Credit

  • World War II
  • American Theater,
  • Streamer without inscription
  • Aleutian Islands
  • China Offensive
  • 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 ALCAN HIGHWAY
  • Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), Streamer embroidered SOUTHWEST ASIA 1990-1991
  • Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), Streamer embroidered IRAQ 2008-2009

By Order of the Secretary of the Army:

CHARLES R. BOWERY, JR.
Chief of Military History


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