Lineage And Honors Information
Lineage and Honors Information as of 27 October 2015
605th Transportation Detachment
- Constituted 10 November 1942 in the Army of the United States as Company C, 1st Battalion, 467th Quartermaster Truck Regiment
- Activated 10 December 1942 at Fort Custer, Michigan
- Reorganized and redesignated 2 December 1943 as the 3623d Quartermaster Truck Company
- Inactivated 19 January 1946 at Camp Kilmer, New Jersey
- Converted and redesignated 1 August 1946 as the 3623d Transportation Corps Truck Company
- Redesignated 17 March 1948 as the 605th Transportation Truck Company and allotted to the Organized Reserves
- (Organized Reserves redesignated 25 March 1948 as the Organized Reserve Corps)
- Activated 2 April 1948 at Buffalo, New York
- Inactivated 31 July 1950 at Buffalo, New York
- Redesignated 13 December 1951 as the 605th Transportation Amphibious Truck Company; concurrently withdrawn from the Organized Reserve Corps and allotted to the Regular Army
- Activated 7 January 1952 at Fort Story, Virginia
- Reorganized and redesignated 5 December 1952 as the 605th Transportation Company
- Inactivated 6 December 1957 at Fort Story, Virginia
- Activated 1 August 1965 at Fort Riley, Kansas
- Inactivated 1 May 1972 at Phu Loi, Vietnam
- Redesignated 16 April 1988 as the 605th Transportation Detachment and activated at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii
Campaign Participation Credit
- World War II
- Normandy
- Northern France
- Rhineland
- Central Europe
- Vietnam
- Counteroffensive
- Counteroffensive, Phase II
- Counteroffensive, Phase III
- Tet Counteroffensive
- Counteroffensive, Phase IV
- Counteroffensive, Phase V
- Counteroffensive, Phase VI
- Tet 69/Counteroffensive
- Summer-Fall 1969
- Winter-Spring 1970
- Sanctuary Counteroffensive
- Counteroffensive, Phase VII
- Consolidation I
- Consolidation II
- Cease-Fire
- War on Terrorism
- Campaigns to be determined
Decorations
- Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), Streamer embroidered EUROPEAN THEATER
- Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), Streamer embroidered VIETNAM 1966-1967
- Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), Streamer embroidered VIETNAM 1967-1968
- Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), Streamer embroidered VIETNAM 1968-1970
- Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), Streamer embroidered VIETNAM 1971
- Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), Streamer embroidered SOUTHWEST ASIA 2010
- Republic of Vietnam Civil Action Honor Medal, First Class, Streamer embroidered VIETNAM 1971-1972
By Order of the Secretary of the Army:
RICHARD W. STEWART
Chief of Military History