13th Combat Sustainment Support Battalion (United States)

13th Combat Sustainment Support Battalion

Coat of arms
Active 13 January 1941 – Present
Country United States of America
Allegiance United States Army
Branch Regular Army
Type Battalion
Role Force sustainment
Part of Forces Command
Garrison/HQ Fort Lewis
Nickname(s) The Pioneers
Motto(s) "Find a way"
Colors Blue, White, & Silver
Commanders
Current
commander		 LTC James Zacchino Jr.
Insignia
Distinctive unit insignia

13th Combat Sustainment Support Battalion (CSSB) is a modular, corps-level support organization responsible for providing multifunctional logistics support to maneuver, fires, and effects organizations as well as multifunctional logistics assistance to other support organizations. The 13th CSSB was formerly stationed at Fort Benning, Georgia, and was a subordinate unit of the 3rd Sustainment Brigade. The battalion was deactivated in October 2011 at Ft Benning and reflagged from the former 80th Ordnance Battalion at Joint Base Lewis/McChord. The battalion is now subordinate to the 42d Military Police Brigade of the 593rd Expeditionary Sustainment Command.[1]

History

The Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment was constituted on 13 January 1941 in the Regular Army as part of the 60th Quartermaster Battalion (Laundry) and activated on 25 May 1942 at Camp Claiborne, Louisiana. The unit was de-activated on 20 June 1948 in England.

On 18 November 1948, the unit was re-designated as the 13th Quartermaster Battalion and activated 4 January 1949 at Camp Lee, Virginia. The unit was re-designated 1 January 1966 as part of the 13th Supply and Service Battalion, activated 21 October 1977 in Augsburg, Germany and assigned to the 2nd Support Command (Corps).

On 30 October 1981, the battalion was organized under the command and control of the 7th Support Group. On 1 April 1982, the Headquarters and Headquarters Company relocated from Reese Kaserne, Augsburg to Flak Kaserne, Ludwigsburg, Germany. The unit moved to Fort Benning, Georgia on 15 November 1991 and was attached to the 36th Engineer Group (Combat).

The unit participated in World War II in Northern France and Rhineland and in the Korean War. Decorations include: two Meritorious Unit Commendations, embroidered; the Army Superior Unit Award; Korea and Republic of Korea Presidential Unit Citations. The Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment (HHD) deployed to Southwest Asia on 11 December 1990 and returned 7 May 1991. On 16 August 1993, the unit deployed soldiers to Somalia in support of Operation Continue Hope and returned 22 December 1993.

More recently, the detachment has deployed soldiers to Taszár, Hungary in support of Operation Joint Forge, South America in support of Hurricane Mitch relief efforts, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia with Task Force 1–15 for Intrinsic Action. The Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment has recently returned from Kuwait and Iraq where they supported the 42nd Infantry Division during Operation Iraqi Freedom.

During Operation Iraqi Freedom III, the HHD, 13th Corps Support Battalion (CSB) operated out of FOB Speicher,Iraq providing command and control for 11 subordinate units and attachments while planning and supervising the administration, training, and internal logistical support for the battalion. 13th CSB conducted over 3,000 combat logistics patrols logging over 3 million miles, completed over 85 recovery missions, and issued over 26 million US gallons (98,000 m3) of fuel. They also completed 3,094 direct support level maintenance job orders, processed 56,525 material release orders, produced 47.5 million US gallons (180,000 m3) of water, and issued over 4.9 million bottles of water and 1.9 million meals.

On 17 October 2006, the HHD, 13th CSB reflagged as the Headquarters and Headquarters Company (HHC), 13th Combat Sustainment Support Battalion (CSSB) and attached to the 3rd Sustainment Brigade of Fort Stewart, GA. On 27 June 2007, the HHC deployed to LSA Anaconda, Iraq in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom (07-09) providing command and control to ten subordinate units and attachments. During OIF (07-09), 13th CSSB executes logistic support to MNC-I forces by operating the major distribution activities at LSAA, including the Corps Storage Area (CSA), Corps Distribution Center (CDC), Central Receiving and Shipping Point (CRSP), Central Issue Facility (CIF), Aerial Delivery, and Mortuary Affairs Collection Point (MACP). 13th CSSB provides reinforcing maintenance, water, and cargo handling support through forward-echeloned team operating at 11 Forward Operating Bases (FOB) through the Iraqi theater. 13th CSSB provided CSS training to Iraqi Security Forces to support the transition to national Iraqi control (Logistics Transition Teams).[2]

In October 2011 the unit relocated from Fort Benning, GA to Joint Base Lewis-McChord, WA.[1]

Honors

Unit decorations

Ribbon Award
Meritorious Unit Commendation
Army Superior Unit Award

Campaigns

Conflict Streamer
World War II Northern France
World War II Rhineland
Korean War Summer Offensive of 1953
Vietnam War Southwest Asia
Persian Gulf War Operation Desert Storm, Operation Desert Shield
Global War on Terror Operation Iraqi Freedom

Task organization

Subordinate units

Battalion Commanders

Command Sergeants-Major

References

  1. 1 2 "Support battalion unveils new colors". Archived from the original on 1 March 2012. Retrieved 25 February 2012.
  2. ↑ 13th Combat Sustainment Support Battalion – History

External links

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