Important Dates
Throughout its short history the battalion was inactivated, reactivated, and redesignated numerous times. Officially it was constituted on 4 December 1942 in the US Army as Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment (HHD), 528th Quartermaster Service Battalion and then activated on the 15th of same month at Camp McCain, MS. Further important dates are listed below:
- 18 Jan 1944 – HHD 528 QB (Quartermaster Battalion)
- 24 May 1946 – HHD 528 QB (M) (Mobile)
- 1 Aug 1946 – HHD 528 Transportation Corps Truck Battalion (TCTB)
- 1 Feb 1947 – HHD 528 QB
- 20 Nov 1947 – Inactivated (France)
- 12 Oct 1948 – HHD 426 QB allotted to Organized Reserve Corps (ORC) and assigned to the 2nd Army
- 22 Oct 1948 – Activated at Clarksburg, WV
- 8 Nov 1950 – Inactivated (West Virginia), withdrawn from ORC
- 15 Jan 1952 – HHD 528 QB alloted to the Regular Army
- 1 Feb 1952 – Activated at Camp Atterbury, IN
- 5 Nov 1966 – Inactivated (Virginia)
- 5 Sep 1969 – HHD 528 QB reorganized
- 25 Sep 1969 – Activated at Phu Bai, Vietnam
- 15 Apr 1971 – Unactivated (Vietnam)
- 3 Jun 1986 – 13 SB organized and consolidated with
- 16 May 1987 – 528 SB redesignated
- 1 Nov 1995 – 528 SOSB (A) allotted to SOSCOM
- 2 Dec 2005 – Inactivated at Fort Bragg; assets succeeded to the Brigade Troops Battalion (Airborne)
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