Lineage And Honors Information
Lineage and Honors Information as of 8 September 2016
287th Transportation Company
- Constituted 1 July 1936 in the Organized Reserves as Company E, 474th Quartermaster Regiment
- Activated 12 August 1940 at Spartanburg, South Carolina
- Ordered into active military service 14 December 1942 at Camp Sutton, North Carolina
- Reorganized and redesignated 15 December 1943 as the 3765th Quartermaster Truck Company
- Inactivated 25 February 1946 on Guam
- Converted and redesignated 1 August 1946 as the 3765th Transportation Corps Truck Company
- Redesignated 17 November 1947 as the 287th Transportation Truck Company
- Activated 8 December 1947 at Ames, Iowa
- (Organized Reserves redesignated 25 March 1948 as the Organized Reserve Corps; on 9 July 1952 as the Army Reserve)
- Location changed 13 January 1949 to Boone, Iowa
- Inactivated 17 November 1950 at Boone, Iowa
- Redesignated 5 November 1962 as the 287th Transportation Company
- Activated 15 March 1963 at Sioux City, Iowa
- Inactivated 31 January 1968 at Sioux City, Iowa
- Activated 30 July 1977 at Livingston, Alabama
- Ordered into active military service 20 September 1990 at Livingston, Alabama; released from active military service 13 June 1991 and reverted to reserve status
- Ordered into active military service 17 January 2003 at Livingston, Alabama; released from active military service 23 June 2004 and reverted to reserve status
- Ordered into active military service 17 November 2009 at Livingston, Alabama; released from active military service 21 December 2010 and reverted to reserve status
Campaign Participation Credit
- World War II
- Asiatic-Pacific Theater,
- Streamer without inscription
- 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 PACIFIC THEATER
- Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), Streamer embroidered SOUTHWEST ASIA 1990-1991
- Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), Streamer embroidered SOUTHWEST ASIA 2003-2004
- Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), Streamer embroidered SOUTHWEST ASIA 2010
By Order of the Secretary of the Army:
CHARLES R. BOWERY, JR.
Chief of Military History