401st Chemical Company, 479th Chemical Battalion
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401st Chemical Company, 479th Chemical Battalion
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Unit history
401ST CHEMICAL COMPANY
- Constituted 1 September 1943 in the Army of the United States as the 228th Chemical Depot Company
- Activated 15 October 1943 at Camp Sibert, Alabama
- Reorganized and redesignated 24 February 1944 as the 228th Chemical Base Depot Company
- Inactivated 29 December 1945 at Hampton Roads Port of Embarkation, Virginia
- Redesignated 15 June 1949 as the 401st Chemical Depot Company and allotted to the Organized Reserve Corps
- Activated 22 June 1949 at Atlanta, Georgia
- (Organized Reserve Corps redesignated 9 July 1952 as the Army Reserve)
- Reorganized and redesignated 30 November 1953 as the 401st Chemical Company
- Inactivated 25 June 1959 at Atlanta, Georgia
- Activated 1 September 1964 at Atlanta, Georgia
- Location changed in 1971 to Chamblee, Georgia; on 15 December 1977 to Rome, Georgia; on 1 May 1999 to Boston, Massachusetts
- Ordered into active military service 22 March 2003 at Boston, Massachusetts; released from active military service 12 July 2003 and reverted to reserve status
- Ordered into active military service 3 January 2014 at Boston, Massachusetts
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Most recent contributors: SSG Carlos Madden