[1] The ship is named after Sergeant William Robert Button, an American Marine who was awarded the Medal of Honor during the first United States occupation of Haiti for assassinating the Haitian freedom fighter Charlemagne Peralte.

[2] The ship unloaded equipments and supplies in Saudi Arabia during the Operation Desert Shield on 13 December 1990.

[3] On 15 October 1998, William R. Button unloaded equipments and supplies in Pohang for Exercise Foal Eagle '98.

[8] William R. Button was moored off the coast of Latvia for the Saber Strike 17 Maritime Prepositioning Force offload operations on 25 May 2017.

[9] On 21 December 2021, mariners on board the ship and few others voluntarily donated toys and trinkets for residents of Guma’ Esperansa, Saipan.