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