Lineages and Honors Information
Transportation
Lineage and Honors Information as of 26 March 2018
Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment
49th Transportation Battalion
- Constituted 1 May 1936 in the Regular Army as Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment, 1st Battalion, 49th Quartermaster Regiment
- Activated 1 May 1942 at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri
- Redesignated 16 June 1942 as Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment, 1st Battalion, 49th Quartermaster Truck Regiment
- Reorganized and redesignated 16 December 1943 as Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment, 49th Quartermaster Battalion, Mobile
- Inactivated 8 April 1946 in France
- Converted and redesignated 1 August 1946 as Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment, 49th Transportation Corps Truck Battalion
- Redesignated 11 June 1954 as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 49th Transportation Battalion
- Activated 3 August 1954 at Camp Gordon, Georgia
- Inactivated 1 September 1955 at Camp Gordon, Georgia
- Activated 5 December 1955 in Germany
- Reorganized and redesignated 20 February 1959 as Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment, 49th Transportation Battalion
- Reorganized and redesignated 25 July 1963 as Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment, 49th Transportation Group
- Reorganized and redesignated 25 May 1965 as Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment, 49th Transportation Center
- Inactivated 1 March 1968 in Germany
- Redesignated 1 April 1982 as the 49th Transportation Center and activated at Fort Hood, Texas
- Reorganized and redesignated 16 October 1999 as Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment, 49th Transportation Battalion
Campaign Participation Credit
- World War II
- Northern France
- Central Europe
- Armed Forces Expeditions
- Somalia
- 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 SOUTHWEST ASIA 1991
- Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), Streamer embroidered SOUTHWEST ASIA 2004
- Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), Streamer embroidered IRAQ 2009-2010
- Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), Streamer embroidered AFGHANISTAN 2012-2013
- Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), Streamer embroidered CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST ASIA 2014-2015
By Order of the Secretary of the Army:
CHARLES R. BOWERY, JR.
Chief of Military History