Lineages and Honors Information
Support / Sustainment

Lineage and Honors Information as of 6 May 2019

Headquarters and Service Company
589th Support Battalion

  • Constituted 29 July 1944 in the Army of the United States as Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment, 589th Quartermaster Battalion, Mobile, and activated in England
  • Converted and redesignated 1 August 1946 as Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment, 589th Transportation Corps Truck Battalion
  • Converted, reorganized, and redesignated 1 February 1947 as Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment, 589th Quartermaster Battalion
  • Inactivated 20 June 1948 in France
  • Redesignated 5 October 1948 as Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment, 425th Quartermaster Battalion and allotted to the Organized Reserve Corps
  • Activated 19 October 1948 at Tampa, Florida
  • Inactivated 1 December 1950 at Tampa, Florida
  • Redesignated 15 January 1952 as Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment, 589th Quartermaster Battalion; concurrently withdrawn from the Organized Reserve Corps and allotted to the Regular Army
  • Activated 31 January 1952 at Fort Lee, Virginia
  • Inactivated 10 December 1957 at Fort Lee, Virginia
  • Converted and redesignated 10 May 1967 as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 589th Supply and Service Battalion
  • Activated 15 August 1967 at Fort Hood, Texas
  • Inactivated 20 December 1968 at Fort Hood, Texas
  • Headquarters and Headquarters Company redesignated 6 July 2004 as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 589th Support Battalion (organic elements concurrently constituted)
  • 589th Support Battalion activated 16 December 2004 at Fort Hood, Texas
  • Headquarters and Headquarters Company reorganized and redesignated 16 October 2014 as Headquarters and Service Company, 589th Support Battalion (organic elements concurrently inactivated)
  • Headquarters and Service Company, 589th Support Battalion inactivated 15 August 2015 at Fort Hood, Texas
  • Headquarters and Service Company, 589th Support Battalion activated 16 September 2018 in Germany

Campaign Participation Credit

  • World War II
  • Rhineland
  • Ardennes-Alsace
  • Central Europe
  • War on Terrorism
  • (Campaigns to be determined)

Decorations

  • Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), Streamer embroidered IRAQ 2005-2006
  • 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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