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Lineage and Honors Information as of 27 May 2011

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HEADQUARTERS AND HEADQUARTERS COMPANY
498th SUPPORT BATTALION

 

 Constituted 1 May 1936 in the Regular Army as Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment, 98th Quartermaster Battalion

Activated 25 July 1942 at Camp Swift, Texas, as Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment, 98th Quartermaster Bakery Battalion

Reorganized and redesignated 26 September 1943 as Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment, 98th Quartermaster Battalion

        Reorganized and redesignated 29 April 1947 as the 98th Quartermaster Service Battalion

        Inactivated 25 January 1950 in Japan

        Activated 17 October 1950 in Korea

Reorganized and redesignated 1 December 1951 as Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment, 98th Quartermaster Battalion

        Inactivated 10 December 1957 at Fort Bragg, North Carolina

        Activated 21 October 1961 at Fort Lee, Virginia 

        Inactivated 6 July 1962 at Fort Lee, Virginia

Activated 20 June 1963 at Fort Polk, Louisiana

Converted, reorganized, and redesignated 20 July 1966 as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 98th Supply and Service Battalion

Inactivated 1 September 1968 in Vietnam

Redesignated 10 January 1975 as Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment, 498th Support Battalion, and activated at Fort Hood, Texas

Inactivated 15 September 1992 in Germany

Activated 16 October 2003 in Korea

Reorganized and redesignated 17 October 2006 as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 498th Support Battalion

 

CAMPAIGN PARTICIPATION CREDIT

World War II                                                     Vietnam
New Guinea                                                      Defense
Luzon                                                               Counteroffensive
                                                                         Counteroffensive, Phase II
Korean War                                                      Counteroffensive, Phase III
UN Offensive                                                     Tet Counteroffensive
CCF Intervention                                               Counteroffensive, Phase IV
First UN Counteroffensive                                  Counteroffensive, Phase V
CCF Spring Offensive                               
UN Summer-Fall Offensive                                        Southwest Asia
Second Korean Winter                                       Defense of Saudi Arabia
Korea, Summer-Fall 1952                                  Liberation and Defense of Kuwait
Third Korean Winter                                          Cease-Fire
Korea, Summer 1953

 

DECORATIONS

Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), Streamer embroidered KOREA 1954

Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), Streamer embroidered VIETNAM 1967

Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), Streamer embroidered SOUTHWEST ASIA 1990-1991

Philippine Presidential Unit Citation, Streamer embroidered 17 OCTOBER 1944 TO
4 JULY 1945

Republic of Korea Presidential Unit Citation, Streamer embroidered KOREA 1950-1952

Republic of Korea Presidential Unit Citation, Streamer embroidered KOREA 1952-1953

 

BY ORDER OF THE SECRETARY OF THE ARMY:

 

 

 

ROBERT J. DALESSANDRO
Director, Center of Military History


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