Lineages and Honors Information
Transportation

Lineage and Honors Information as of 18 October 2019

521st Transportation Detachment

  • Constituted 23 March 1966 in the Regular Army as the 521st Transportation Detachment
  • Activated 1 June 1966 at Fort Lewis, Washington
  • Inactivated 23 May 1969 in Vietnam
  • Withdrawn 22 July 1992 from the Regular Army and allotted to the Army Reserve
  • Activated 16 September 1994 at Wilmington, North Carolina
  • Location changed 16 July 2002 to North Charleston, South Carolina
  • Inactivated 15 September 2005 at North Charleston, South Carolina
  • Activated 16 September 2019 at Dayton, Ohio

Campaign Participation Credit

  • Vietnam
  • Counteroffensive, Phase II
  • Counteroffensive, Phase III
  • Tet Counteroffensive
  • Counteroffensive, Phase IV
  • Counteroffensive, Phase V
  • Counteroffensive, Phase VI
  • Tet 69/Counteroffensive

Decorations

None

By Order of the Secretary of the Army:

CHARLES R. BOWERY, JR.
Chief of Military History


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