Lineage And Honors Information
Lineage and Honors Information as of 8 June 2012
689th TRANSPORTATION DETACHMENT
- Constituted 1 May 1936 in the Regular Army as Company B, 394th Quartermaster Battalion
- Activated 27 June 1941 at Oakland, California
- Converted, reorganized, and redesignated 31 July 1942 as Company B, 394th Port Battalion, Transportation Corps
- Reorganized and redesignated 10 November 1943 as the 609th Port Company
- Redesignated 25 July 1947 as the 609th Transportation Port Company
- Inactivated 25 January 1949 in Korea
- Redesignated 1 March 1956 as the 609th Transportation Company
- Activated 14 March 1956 at Fort Eustis, Virginia
- Inactivated 20 May 1957 at Fort Eustis, Virginia
- Activated 1 August 1965 at Fort Benning, Georgia
- Inactivated 16 November 1987 at Hunter Army Airfield, Georgia
- Redesignated 7 June 2007 as the 689th Transportation Detachment
- Activated 16 October 2008 at Fort Eustis, Virginia
Campaign Participation Credit
- World War II
- East Indies
- Papua
- New Guinea
- Leyte (with arrowhead)
Decorations
- Presidential Unit Citation (Army), Streamer embroidered PAPUA
- Army Superior Unit Award, Streamer embroidered 2010
- Philippine Presidential Unit Citation, Streamer embroidered 17 OCTOBER 1944 TO 4 JULY 1945
By Order of the Secretary of the Army:
Robert J. Dalessandro
Director, Center of Military History