Lineage and Honors Information as of 26 August 2015
Headquarters and Headquarters Company,
419th Transportation Battalion
- Constituted 23 November 1944 in the Army of the United States as Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment, 298th Quartermaster Battalion, Mobile
- Activated 15 December 1944 at Fort Bragg, North Carolina
- Inactivated 1 November 1945 at Fort Jackson, South Carolina
- Converted and redesignated 1 August 1946 as Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment, 298th Transportation Corps Truck Battalion
- Redesignated 3 February 1949 as Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment, 419th Transportation Truck Battalion, and allotted to the Organized Reserve Corps
- Activated 5 April 1949 at Chicago, Illinois
- Reorganized and redesignated 23 February 1950 as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 419th Transportation Truck Battalion
- (Organized Reserve Corps redesignated 9 July 1952 as the Army Reserve)
- Inactivated 15 April 1952 at Chicago, Illinois
- Redesignated 15 August 1955 as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 419th Transportation Battalion and activated a Chicago, Illinois
- Location changed 21 September 1957 to Oak Park, Illinois
- Reorganized and redesignated 11 September 1959 as Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment, 419th Transportation Battalion
- Location changed 19 January 1964 to Forest Park, Illinois
- Reorganized and redesignated 1 November 1968 as Headquarters, 419th Transportation Battalion
- Reorganized and redesignated 15 March 1972 as Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment, 419th Transportation Battalion
- Location changed 15 February 1976 to Fort Sheridan, Illinois; on 16 December 1980 to Peoria, Illinois
- Ordered into active military service 11 October 1990 at Peoria, Illinois; released from active military service 2 June 1991 and reverted to reserve status with location at Bartonville, Illinois
- Ordered into active military service 16 January 2003 and 10 February 2003 at Bartonville, Illinois; released from active military service 21 May 2004 and 23 June 2004 and reverted to reserve status
- Ordered into active military service 12 December 2009 at Bartonville, Illinois; released from active military service 15 January 2011 and reverted to reserve status
- Ordered into active military service 19 February 2015 at Bartonville, Illinois
Campaign Participation Credit
- Southwest Asia
- Defense of Saudi Arabia
- Liberation and Defense of Kuwait
- Cease-Fire
- War on Terrorism
- Campaigns to be determined
Decorations
By Order of the Secretary of the Army:
RICHARD W. STEWART
Chief of Military History
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