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407th SUPPORT BATTALION (AIRBORNE)
-Constituted 5 August 1917 in the National Army as 307th Supply Train, an element of the 82nd Division.
-Organized October 1917 at Camp Gordon, Georgia
-Demobilized 9 May 1919 at Camp Dix, New Jersey.
-Reconstituted 21 September 1936 in the Organized Reserves and concurrently consolidated with the 407th Quartermaster Regiment; consolidated unit designated as the 407th Quartermaster Regiment and remained assigned to the 82nd Division (Later redesignated as the 82nd Airborne Division)
-Reorganized and redesignated 13 February 1942 as 407th Quartermaster Battalion.
-Ordered into active military service 25 March 1942 at Camp Claiborne, Louisiana.
-Reorganized and redesignated 15 August 1942 as 407th Airborne Quartermaster Company.
-(Organized Reserves redesignated 2 March 1948 as Organized Reserve Corps.)
-Withdrawn from the Organized Reserve Corps and designated as a Regular Army unit 15 November 1948.
-Reorganized and redesignated 1 September 1957 as the 407th Supply and Transport Battalion.
-Reorganized and redesignated 25 May 1964 as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 407th Supply and Transport Battalion; (82d Quartermaster Parachute Supply and Maintenance Company [activated 1 March 1945] reorganized and redesignated as Company B, 407th Supply and Transport Battalion); the remainder of Battalion constituted and activated.
-Inactivated 15 August 1965 at Fort Bragg, North Carolina.
-Redesignated 21 September 1974 as the 407th Supply and Service Battalion and activated at Fort Bragg, North Carolina.
-Reorganized and redesignated 16 September 1987 as the 407th Supply and Transport Battalion.
-Reorganized and redesignated 16 April 1994 as the 407th Support Battalion
CAMPAIGN PARTICIPATION CREDIT
World War I
St. Mihiel
Meuse-Argonne
Lorraine 1918
World War II
Sicily
Naples-Foggia
Normandy (with arrowhead)
Rhineland (with arrowhead)
Ardennes -Alsace
Central Europe
Armed Forces Expeditions
Dominican Republic
Grenada
Southwest Asia
Defense of Saudi Arabia
Liberation and Defense of Kuwait
Company A additionally entitled to:
Armed Forces Expeditions
Panama (with arrowhead)
DECORATIONS
Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), Streamer embroidered EUROPEAN THEATER
Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), Streamer embroidered SOUTHWEST ASIA (10 Sep 90 - 7 Apr 91, 7 April 95)
Military Order of William (Degree of the Knight of Fourth Class), Streamer embroidered NIJMEGEN 1944
Netherlands Orange Lanyard
Belgian Fourragere 1940
Cited in the Order of the Day or the Belgian Army for action in the ARDENNES
Cited in the Order of the Day of the Belgian Army for action in BELGIUM AND GERMANY.
