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286: 24: 270: 393:. Additionally, Company B received a Valorous Unit Award and a Meritorious Unit Commendation; Company C received two Valorous Unit Awards (Jan–Apr 66, DAGO 20, 67; 11–31 Aug 69, DAGO 43, 72) and a Meritorious Unit Commendation (1 Oct 69–31 Mar 70, DAGO 51, 71) and Company D received a Valorous Unit Award and a Meritorious Unit Commendation. 385:. During combat operations a mobile direct support company of the battalion would accompany each brigade providing maintenance and repair parts supply to the line units. The 725th Maintenance Battalion served in twelve Vietnam campaigns receiving two Meritorious Unit Commendations, two awards of the 334:; and activated on 1 October 1941. On 1 August 1942 it was reorganized and redesignated as the Ordnance Maintenance Platoon. On 1 November 1942 the platoon was reorganized and redesignated as the 725th Ordnance Light Maintenance Company, a separate company of the 376:
In the reorganization of the 25th Division in 1963 the battalion was reorganized and redesignated as the 725th Maintenance Battalion to perform maintenance support on a wide variety of divisional equipment. The first unit of the 725th to arrive in
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On 16 November 2005 the battalion was temporarily inactivated. On 16 September 2006 the 725th was reorganized and redesignated as the 725th Support Battalion (Airborne) and assigned to the 4th Brigade Combat Team {Airborne),
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On 20 March 1946 the company was reorganized and redesignated as the 725th Ordnance Maintenance Company to reflect additional ordnance maintenance capabilities. During the
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on 26 August 1941 as the Maintenance Platoon, Headquarters Company, 325th Quartermaster Battalion using the personnel and equipment of the 11th Ordnance Company,
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was Company D which accompanied the 3rd Brigade to the Central Highlands in December 1965. The rest of the battalion arrived on 1 April 1966 and was based at
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from January 2004 – February 2005 as part of Logistics Task Force 225. The remainder of the Battalion served in
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On 16 April 1992 the battalion was redesignated as the 725th Support Battalion and was reorganized as a
343: 285: 338:. The primary mission of the company was vehicle repair. The company accompanied the 25th Division to 515: 382: 404:, an ordnance maintenance company and a medical company. Elements of the battalion supported the 535: 331: 342:
where it supported the division's units during that campaign and subsequent campaigns in the
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the 725th participated in all ten campaigns with the 25th Division receiving a
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in Regional Command East including maintenance and medical support.
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2nd Infantry Brigade Combat Team (Airborne), 11th Airborne Division
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