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    -- General George S. Patton, Jr

    516th Personnel Services Battalion

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    Constituted 1 June 1944 in the Army of the United States as the 516th Replacement Company

    Activated 20 June 1944 at Fort Bragg, North Carolina

    Inactivated 3 October 1945 at Camp Stoneman, California

    Allotted 27 September 1951 to the Regular Army

    Activated 7 November 1951 in Japan

    Inactivated 21 May 1954 in Japan

    Redesignated 30 December 1965 as the 516th Personnel Service Company

    Activated 1 February 1966 at Fort Benning, Georgia

    Inactivated 29 August 1972 in Vietnam

    Activated 16 October 1987 in Korea

    Reorganized and redesignated 16 August 1995 as the 516th Personnel Services Battalion

    516th Personnel Services Battalion Honors

    Campaign Participation Credit

    World War II: European-African-Middle Eastern Theater, Streamer without inscription

    Vietnam: 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

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    Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army) for PACIFIC AREA 1951-1953

    Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army) for VIETNAM 1968-1969

    Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army) for VIETNAM 1970-1971

    Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army) for VIETNAM 1971-1972
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    This Day in History
    1865: Confederate General Joseph Johnston officially surrenders his army to General William T. Sherman at Durham Station, North Carolina.

    1865: John Wilkes Booth is killed when Union soldiers track him down to a Virginia farm 12 days after he assassinated President Abraham Lincoln.

    1865: Joseph E. Johnston surrenders the Army of Tennessee to Sherman.

    1937: The ancient Basque town of Guernica in northern Spain is bombed by German planes.

    1952: Armistice negotiations are resumed.

    1971: The U.S. command in Saigon announces that the U.S. force level in Vietnam is 281,400 men, the lowest since July 1966.

    1972: President Nixon, despite the ongoing communist offensive, announces that another 20,000 U.S. troops will be withdrawn from Vietnam in May and June, reducing authorized troop strength to 49,000.


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