Lineages and Honors Information
Transportation

Lineage and Honors Information as of 23 August 2018

217th Transportation Company

  • Constituted 28 December 1942 in the Army of the United States as the 2072d Quartermaster Truck Company, Aviation
  • Activated 1 January 1943 at Santa Maria Army Air Base, California
  • Inactivated 30 November 1945 in Germany
  • Converted and redesignated 1 August 1946 as the 2072d Transportation Corps Truck Company
  • Redesignated 13 July 1948 as the 730th Transportation Truck Company and allotted to the Organized Reserve Corps
  • Activated 1 August 1948 at Yakima, Washington
  • Redesignated 15 October 1948 as the 217th Transportation Truck Company
  • (Organized Reserve Corps redesignated 9 July 1952 as the Army Reserve)
  • Reorganized and redesignated 15 April 1953 as the 217th Transportation Company
  • Inactivated 1 February 1958 at Yakima, Washington
  • Activated 1 July 1978 at Pleasanton, Texas
  • Location changed 16 November 1980 to San Antonio, Texas
  • Ordered into active military service 17 November 1990 at San Antonio, Texas; released from active military service 28 June 1991 and reverted to reserve status
  • Ordered into active military service 11 February 2003 at San Antonio, Texas; released from active military service 14 June 2004 and reverted to reserve status
  • Ordered into active military service 11 May 2006 at San Antonio, Texas; released from active military service 31 August 2007 and reverted to reserve status
  • Ordered into active military service 18 August 2010 at San Antonio, Texas; released from active military service 21 September 2011 and reverted to reserve status

Campaign Participation Credit

  • World War II
  • Normandy
  • Northern France
  • Rhineland
  • Ardennes-Alsace
  • Central Europe
  • 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 EUROPEAN THEATER
  • Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), Streamer embroidered SOUTHWEST ASIA 1991
  • Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), Streamer embroidered SOUTHWEST ASIA 2010-2011

By Order of the Secretary of the Army:

CHARLES R. BOWERY, JR.
Chief of Military History


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