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During the Korean War, Camp Shelby was established as an emergency railhead facility. In the summer of 1954, non-divisional National Guard units trained at Camp Shelby and in 1956, it was designated a permanent training site by Continental Army Command (now FORSCOM). Over 5,000 troops were processed through Camp Shelby during Desert Storm ...
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The 177th Armored Brigade is an AC/RC unit based at Camp Shelby, Mississippi. The unit is responsible for training selected United States Army Reserve and National Guard units. The unit was formerly designated as 3rd Brigade, 87th Division. The brigade is a subordinate unit of First Army. [1]
In 1999, the brigade was redesignated as 2nd Brigade, 87th Division (Training Support). In 2006, as part of the Army's Transformation Plan, the 2nd Brigade, 87th Division was reflagged as the 158th Infantry Brigade. An Army Times article dated 17 August 2010 announced the brigade's move from Patrick AFB to Camp Shelby, Mississippi. [1]
The brigade became the 155th Armored Brigade on 1 November 1973 when the 30th Armored was split up into separate brigades. [1] 30th Armored assistant commander Brigadier General Guy J. Gravelee Jr. became the first 155th commander, and it took the number of the 155th Infantry Regiment, the oldest Mississippi National Guard unit, which traced its lineage back to 1798.
Jones began an engineering career in 1974 as a civil engineer in hydrology subsection for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in Tulsa, Oklahoma. A year later Jones moved to Perry, OK, to be an area engineer for the Soil Conservation Service from 1975 until 1978 when he accepted an assistant professor of agricultural engineering position at Oklahoma State University.
The 278th mobilized out of JFTC Shelby (Camp Shelby) beginning in December 2009 with attachments from Michigan, Wisconsin, Tennessee, and West Virginia National Guard units. The 278th acted as the convoy security element for the 13th ESC, and was tasked with the protection of retrograde activities and FOB closures from the Turkish border to Kuwait.
Equipment for training was chronically short, however, forcing leaders to fabricate dummy artillery pieces from wood and iron scrap, while the soldiers drilled with pieces of wood to simulate rifles and machine guns. In April 1918, a tornado struck Camp Shelby, damaging the division's camp and killing one soldier, PVT Vaughn D. Beekman.