5th Maintenance Company
Lineage and Honors Information as of 15 November 2006
5th Maintenance Company Lineage
Organized in January 1918 in the National Army at Camp Dodge, Iowa as the 5th Mobile Ordnance Repair Shop
Assigned in February 1918 to the 5th Division
Disbanded 4 August 1919 at Camp Upton, New York
Reconstituted 23 September 1919 in the Regular Army as the 5th Light Mobile Ordnance Repair Shop and organized at Camp Stanley, Texas
Reorganized and redesignated 14 February 1921 as the 5th Ordnance Company, an element of the 5th Division
Inactivated 2 December 1921 at Camp Jackson, South Carolina
Relieved 15 August 1927 from the 5th Division and assigned to the 9th Division
Relieved 1 August 1940 from the 9th Division
Activated 10 February 1941 at Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland
Redesignated 1 April 1942 as the 5th Ordnance Medium Maintenance Company
Redesignated 25 January 1953 as the 5th Ordnance Company
Inactivated 23 December 1958 in Korea
Activated 20 April 1959 at Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland
Reorganized and redesignated 25 April 1966 as the 5th Maintenance Company
Inactivated 30 June 1971 in Vietnam
Activated 21 December 1972 in Germany
5th Maintenance Company Honors
Campaign Participation Credit
World War I: Lorraine 1918; St. Mihiel; Meuse-Argonne
World War II: Sicily; Rome-Arno; North Apennines; Po Valley
Korean War: UN Defensive; UN Offensive; CCF Intervention; First UN Counteroffensive; CCF Spring Offensive; UN Summer-Fall Offensive; Second Korean Winter; Korea, Summer-Fall 1952; Third Korean Winter; Korea, Summer 1953
Vietnam: Counteroffensive, Phase II; Counteroffensive, Phase III; Tet Counteroffensive; Counteroffensive, Phase IV; Counteroffensive, Phase V; Counteroffensive, Phase VI; Tet 69/Counteroffensive; Summer-Fall 1969; Winter-Spring 1970; Sanctuary Counteroffensive; Counteroffensive, Phase VII
Decorations
Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army) for KOREA 1953
Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army) for VIETNAM 1968
Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army) for VIETNAM 1968-1969
Army Superior Unit Award for 1995-1996
Army Superior Unit Award for 2001-2002