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The transportation motor transport battalion is designed to support the movement of personnel and matériel for divisions and corps in an area of operation. It is normally attached to a sustainment brigade and consists of a headquarters and headquarters detachment providing command and control of between three and seven motor transport ...
The 115th Brigade Support Battalion is a battalion of the United States Army. Organized at Camp Henry Knox, Kentucky in 1919 as the 657th Motor Transport Company, it was re-designated the 84th Motor Transport Company on 1 December 1919. Since that time, many re-designations have occurred as the United States Army has changed.
2d Transportation Support Battalion is a logistics unit of the United States Marine Corps that is based at Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune, North Carolina. The battalion falls under the command of Combat Logistics Regiment 2 and the 2nd Marine Logistics Group. The battalion was reactivated October 1, 2014.
The 2nd Battalion, 138th Field Artillery Regiment of the Kentucky Army National Guard was ordered to service in Vietnam in late 1968. The unit supported the regular 101st Airborne Division. The Battalion's C Battery lost nine men killed and 32 wounded when North Vietnamese troops overran Fire Base Tomahawk on June 19, 1969. [5]
Motor Transport Corps Parade, 1919, Washington D.C. The Motor Transport Corps (M.T.C.) was formed out of the United States Army Quartermaster Corps on 15 August 1918, by General Order No. 75. Men needed to staff this new corps were recruited from the skilled tradesmen working for automotive manufacturers in the US.
The Transportation Corps is a combat service support branch of the U.S. Army.It is responsible for the movement of personnel and material by truck, rail, air, and sea. It is one of three U.S. Army logistics branches, the others being the Quartermaster Corps and the Ordnance Corps.
310th Sustainment Command (Expeditionary) (ESC) is an Army Reserve unit subordinate to 377th Theater Sustainment Command headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana. The command provides command and control for sustainment units through Alabama, Delaware, Indiana, Kentucky, Maryland,North Carolina, Ohio, Tennessee, West Virginia, and Virginia. 310th ESC provides trained and ready sustainment forces ...
On 17 September 1942, the battalion was converted and re-designated as the 396th Port Battalion in the Transportation Corps. The battalion served with distinction during World War II, participating in the first large-scale Logistics Over The Shore mission during the 1943 invasion of Sicily. Later, the battalion was in charge of several ...