User:21lima/United States Army Ordnance companies and detachments

The United States Army has a number of independent Ordnance companies and detachments.

This list does not include headquarters companies for higher formations such as battalions, groups, brigades and similar. Parenthetical identifiers are not included in the listing as these are not part of the official unit designation and may have changed over the unit's history.

Decorations

 * Army Superior Unit Award (26 June 1990 – 22 September 1990)

41st Ordnance Company
The 41st Ordnance Company was organized in May 1936 as Company C, 1st Battalion, 32nd Quartermaster Regiment. It was redesignated as Company C, 70th Quartermaster Battalion in June 1940 and moved to Camp Gordon, Georgia in May 1942. The company was converted and redesignated as the 3419th Ordnance Medium Maintenance Company in August 1942. The company was reorganized as the 3419th Ordnance Medium Automotive Maintenance Company in January 1943 and deployed to Europe participating in four campaigns during War World II. It was reorganized and redesignated as the 41st Ordnance Medium Automotive Maintenance Company in June 1947 and inactivated in Germany in September 1947.

The company was activated in Japan in March 1950 and deployed to Korea where it participated in one campaign. The unit was inactivated in Japan in November 1951.

The company was activated at Fort Bragg, North Carolina in May 1952 and was redesignated as the 41st Ordnance Company in November 1952. The 41st was inactivated in Thailand in September 1966.

The 41st Ordnance Company was reactivated in September 1975 and garrisoned at Rhine Ordnance Barracks in Vogelweh, part of the Kaiserslautern military community and was assigned to the 72nd Ordnance Battalion, 59th Ordnance Brigade. The 41st provided general support on various missile systems. Their Dedicated Delivery Service program provided a direct exchange of defective missile parts. The 41st maintained two storage depots: in Weilerbach and in Fischbach where large reserves of Pershing, Hawk and Nike Hercules missile systems were stored and maintained

The company was reassigned to the reactivated 3rd Ordnance Battalion, 59th Ordnance Brigade in September 1977. The 3rd Ordnance Battalion was transferred to the 32nd Army Air Defense Command and the 41st Ordnance was transferred to Special Troops Battalion on 1 November 1982 then to the Theater Support Battalion. The 3rd Ordnance Battalion transferred back to the 59th Ordnance Brigade in June 1985 and regained the 41st Ordnance Company. The 3rd Ordnance Battalion was inactivated in October 1990 and the 41st was transferred to the 197th Ordnance Battalion.

Decorations

 * Army Superior Unit Award (26 June 1990 – 22 September 1990)

Lineage

 * Constituted 12 June 1942 in the Army of the United States as the 162d Ordnance Platoon
 * Activated 23 June 1942 at Camp Edwards, Massachusetts
 * Reorganized and redesignated 28 July 1943 as the 162d Ordnance Maintenance Company, 2d Engineer Special Brigade
 * Allotted 26 June 1952 to the Regular Army
 * Reorganized and redesignated 1 August 1952 as the 162d Ordnance Maintenance Company, 2d Amphibious Support Brigade
 * Reorganized and redesignated 1 April 1954 as the 162d Ordnance Company, 2d Amphibious Support Brigade
 * Inactivated 25 July 1955 in Japan
 * Activated 18 May 1959 at Sandia Base, New Mexico
 * Inactivated 15 June 1992 in Germany
 * Activated 16 October 2008 at Fort Bliss, Texas

Campaigns

 * World War II: New Guinea; Leyte
 * Korean War: UN Defensive; UN Offensive; CCF Intervention; First UN Counteroffensive; CCF Spring Offensive; UN Summer-Fall Offensive; Korea, Summer-Fall 1953

Decorations

 * Presidential Unit Citation (Navy), Streamer embroidered INCHON
 * Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), Streamer embroidered KOREA
 * Republic of Korea Presidential Unit Citation, Streamer embroidered KOREA 1950 - 1952
 * Philippine Presidential Unit Citation, Streamer embroidered 17 October 1944 to 4 July 1945

Decorations

 * Army Superior Unit Award (26 June 1990 – 22 September 1990)

Decorations

 * Army Superior Unit Award (26 June 1990 – 22 September 1990)

579th Ordnance Company
The 579th Ordnance Company was activated and assigned to the 81st Ordnance Battalion on 24 June 1961 in Wiesbaden, commanded by Captain William H. Dodd. The Seventh United States Army Advance Weapons Guided Missile Company, located in Gonsenheim and the 367th Ordnance Detachment were inactivated on the same date and most of the personnel were transferred to the 579th; the 167th Ordnance Detachment was attached to the 579th. The mission of the 579th was to provide general support maintenance for all non-explosive components of "Y" missiles and all ordnance materiel of the ground guidance launching and handling equipment not allied with automotive or conventional mechanical equipment. In 1964 the 579th was transferred to the 19th Ordnance Battalion.

The 579th Ordnance Company under the 59th Ordnance Group was assigned the general support role for the Pershing missile in 1966. The company was garrisoned on Kleber Kaserne in Kaiserslautern. In January 1967, the company moved to Wartberg Kaserne in Pforzheim. The 579th then moved to Nelson Barracks in Neu-Ulm in a general support maintenance role. In 1977 the 3rd Ordnance Battalion was activated under the 59th Ordnance Brigade with the 579th as a subordinate unit. In 1982, the 579th was deactivated and reformed as Headquarters and Headquarters Company and D Company of the 55th Maintenance Battalion, 56th Field Artillery Brigade.

Members of the 579th wore the shoulder sleeve insignia of the Theater Army Support Command (TASCOM) until 1974, then the United States Army Europe (USAREUR). They wore the distinctive unit insignia of the 59th Ordnance Brigade until 1977 when the unit switched to that of the 3rd Ordnance Battalion.

Commanders
 * Maj. Francis W. Thonus
 * Maj. Richard A. Carter
 * Capt. Michael C. Kilgore