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Beware that, when fighting monsters, you yourself do not become a monster...for when you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.

-- Friedrich Nietzsche

624th Transportation Detachment

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624th Transportation Detachment Lineage


Constituted 31 October 1967 in the Regular Army as the 624th Transportation Detachment

Activated 18 January 1968 at Fort Eustis, Virginia

Inactivated 31 January 1972 in Vietnam

Activated 17 September 2002 in Germany


624th Transportation Detachment Honors


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Vietnam: 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


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Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army) for VIETNAM 1968
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