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630th Transportation Company(190 total words in this text)(3716 Reads)  Constituted 30 December 1948 in the Organized Reserve Corps as the 630th Transportation Truck Company Activated 14 January 1949 at Washington, Pennsylvania Reorganized and redesignated 11 July 1950 as the 630th Transportation Heavy Truck Company (Organized Reserve Corps redesignated 9 July 1952 as the Army Reserve) Reorganized and redesignated 20 May 1953 as the 630th Transportation Company Ordered into active military service 15 October 1961 at Washington, Pennsylvania; released 8 August 1962 from active military service and reverted to reserve status Ordered into active military service 13 May 1968 at Washington, Pennsylvania; released 9 August 1969 from active military service and reverted to reserve status Ordered into active military service 4 February 1991 at Washington, Pennsylvania; released 21 September 1991 from active military service and reverted to reserve status 630th Transportation Company Honors Campaign Participation Credit Vietnam: Counteroffensive, Phase V; Counteroffensive, Phase VI; Tet 69/Counteroffensive; Summer-Fall 1969 Southwest Asia: Liberation and Defense of Kuwait; Cease-Fire Decorations Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army) for SOUTHWEST ASIA 1990-1991 |
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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1966. 1972: President Nixon, despite the ongoing communist offensive, announces that another 20,000 U.S. troops will be withdrawn from Vietnam in May and June, reducing authorized troop strength to 49,000. |
