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= 949th Transportation Company (Floating Craft) =

The 949th Transportation Company (Floating Craft) was constituted on 31 July, 1942 in the Army of the United States as Company B, 489th Quartermaster Battalion. It has since been re-designated multiple times and is now a Floating Craft Transportation Company in the United States Army Reserves headquartered in Curtis Bay, Baltimore.

Unit History
Constituted on the 31st of July, 1942 in the Army of the United States as Company B, 489th Quartermaster Battalion and activated on the 15th of December, 1942 as Company B, 489th Port Battalion, Transportation Corps, at Indiantown Gap Military Reservation, Pennsylvania. Later reorganized and re-designated on the 10th of November, 1942 as the 613th Port Company until its inactivation on the 15th of February, 1946 in Japan.

Eventually, the Company was re-designated again on the 12th of May, 1947 as the 949th Transportation Port Company; concurrently allotted to the Organized Reserves and activated 15 days later at Baltimore, Maryland.

(In 1948, the Organized Reserves re-designated as the Organized Reserve Corps and again in 1952 as the United States Army Reserves).

On the 30th of April, 1950, the 949th Transportation Port Company was inactivated at Baltimore, Maryland and then re-designated 5 years later in 1955 as the 949th Transportation Company. It was eventually activated on the 22nd of February, 1956 at Baltimore Maryland.

As of the 16th of August, 2019, the 949th Transportation Company will undergo inactivation from the United States Army Reserves.

Campaign Participation Credit
World War II - Asiatic Pacific Campaign Medal: New Guinea; Luzon (with arrowhead).

Decorations
Philippine Presidential Unit Citation for 17 OCTOBER 1944 TO 04 JULY 1945.