page_title: 490th Civil Affairs Battalion
section_title: Relocations
hierarchical_section_title: 490th Civil Affairs Battalion / Global War on Terror - 2001 to present / Relocations
caption_attribution_description: FORT BRAGG, N.C. - Staff Sgt. Jacqueline L. Hunt is awarded the Department of Defense Soldier's Medal by Maj. Gen. Alan D. Bell, Deputy Commander of the U.S. Army Reserve Command, on August 22, 2008. Hunt earned the honor for saving the life of a traffic accident victim who had serious, complex, and life-threatening injuries. She is an Army Reserve Civil Affairs Soldier with the U.S. Army Civil Affairs and Psychological Operations Command (Airborne) and assigned to the 490th Civil Affairs Battalion, located in Abilene, Texas. Photo by Sgt. Sharilyn Wells
context_page_description: The 490th Civil Affairs Battalion is a civil affairs unit of the United States Army Reserve located at the Grand Prairie Armed Forces Reserve Complex in Grand Prairie, Texas and organized under the 321st Civil Affairs Brigade, 350th Civil Affairs Command, United States Army Civil Affairs and Psychological Operations Command or USACAPOC. The 490th is composed of Headquarters and Headquarters Company and its four tactical companies, Alpha, Bravo, Charlie, and Delta. The unit was activated for service during World War II, the Berlin Crisis, and Operation Iraqi Freedom.
context_section_description: In the summer of 2006, the Battalion Headquarters, Headquarters Company, and Alpha Company were relocated to Dallas, Texas, with Bravo Company remaining stationed in Abilene, Texas. Headquarters and Headquarters Company and Alpha Company were stationed at the Herzog US Army Reserve Center in South Dallas (on Lancaster Road near the Dallas VA Hospital in the Dallas area known as Oak Cliff) until the Herzog center was closed.
  At the same time, USACAPOC (A) and its subordinate reserve forces, including the 490th, were realigned from USASOC(A) to the US Army Reserve Command. USACAPOC(A) re-aligned the 490th and the rest of the 321st CA Brigade from the 351st to the 350th CACOM out of Pensacola, Florida.
  
  In relocating to Dallas, the 490th left behind six decades of history and a rich military community in Abilene, but gained an advantage in recruiting personnel for planned expansions of the 490th that would double its size and increase its readiness for deployment and mission capacity.
  In 2008, SSG Jacqueline Hunt of the 490th received the Soldier's Medal. Hunt was driving home on a freeway near Fort Worth when she observed and administered live-saving first-aid to a man involved in a severe accident The Soldier's Medal is the seventh highest decoration given to soldiers and recognizes acts of heroism not involving combat operations.
  In May 2010, the 490th Civil Affairs Battalion was relocated to Grand Prairie, Texas to the Grand Prairie Armed Forces Reserve Complex (AFRC), located on grounds formerly part of the historic Dallas Naval Air Station. At this time the battalion was reorganized and redesignated as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 490th Civil Affairs Battalion (Tactical), with subordinate units Alpha, Bravo, Charlie, and Delta Companies concurrently constituted and organized.
  All elements were relocated to Grand Prairie and none remained in Abilene or Dallas. The training facilities and many personnel from the 490th that were located in Abilene were transferred to the control of the 413th Civil Affairs Battalion in Lubbock, Texas. The 490th joined several Army Reserve, Army National Guard, and Marine Corps Reserve units at the Grand Prairie facility on the eastern portion of the land the Dallas Naval Air Station and Hensley Field encompassed.
  As of 2016, the 490th remains stationed at the Grand Prairie facility.
caption: Staff Sergeant Hunt receives the Soldiers Medal from Major General Alan D. Bell.
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