Lineages and Honors Information
Transportation

Lineage and Honors Information as of 30 April 2018

250th Transportation Company

  • Constituted 31 October 1942 in the Army of the United States as Company A, 517th Quartermaster Truck Regiment
  • Activated 2 December 1942 at Camp Van Dorn, Mississippi
  • Reorganized and redesignated 15 December 1943 as the 3941st Quartermaster Truck Company
  • Inactivated 4 December 1945 at Camp Shanks, New York
  • Converted and redesignated 1 August 1946 as the 3941st Transportation Corps Truck Company
  • Redesignated 13 February 1948 as the 250th Transportation Amphibious Truck Company and allotted to the Organized Reserves
  • Activated 10 March 1948 at Los Angeles, California
  • (Organized Reserves redesignated 25 March 1948 as the Organized Reserve Corps; on 9 July 1952 as the Army Reserve)
  • Location changed 28 May 1951 to Bakersfield, California
  • Reorganized and redesignated 1 January 1953 as the 250th Transportation Company
  • Location changed 1 May 1959 to Eureka, California
  • Ordered into active military service 15 October 1961 at Eureka, California; released from active military service 4 August 1962 and reverted to reserve status
  • Inactivated 29 February 1968 at Eureka, California
  • Activated 30 September 1975 at Fresno, California
  • Location changed 1 October 1976 to El Monte, California
  • Ordered into active military service 7 December 1990 at El Monte, California; released from active military service 18 May 1991 and reverted to reserve status
  • Ordered into active military service 15 October 2001 at El Monte, California; released from active military service 14 October 2002 and reverted to reserve status
  • Ordered into active military service 21 November 2005 and 12 January 2006 at El Monte, California; released from active military service 28-29 September 2007 and reverted to reserve status

Campaign Participation Credit

  • World War II
  • Rhineland
  • Southwest Asia
  • Liberation and Defense of Kuwait
  • Cease-Fire
  • War on Terrorism
  • Iraq:
  • National Resolution
  • Iraqi Surge

Decorations

  • Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), Streamer embroidered IRAQ 2006-2007

By Order of the Secretary of the Army:

CHARLES R. BOWERY, JR.
Chief of Military History


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