- 167th Support Battalion (United States)
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unit_name=167th Support Group (Corps), 1971-2006
167th Support Battalion, 2006-present
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dates=1971 -2006 (group)2006 -present (battalion)
country=United States
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branch=United States Army Reserve
type= Support (logistics)
role= command & control of subordinate logistical companies
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garrison=Londonderry, New Hampshire
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identification_symbol_label=167th Support Battalion colour
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identification_symbol_3_label=167th Support Group colour
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aircraft_transport=The 167th Support Battalion is a support
battalion of theUnited States Army Reserve based atLondonderry, New Hampshire , assigned to the94th Regional Readiness Command .Activated in
1971 as the 167th Support Group (Corps), it was reorganised as a battalion in2006 . The 167th is a logistical support battalion capable of a variety of actions, capable of independent operations and taking on subordinate units to fulfill a larger scale sustainment operation for theUnited States Army .Organization
Due to the battalions's modular design, it is also capable of gaining additional subordinate units upon deployment to a theatre of operations.
History
Established at Grenier Field U.S. Army Reserve Center, on Galaxy Way, on the grounds of
Manchester-Boston Regional Airport (the former Grenier Air Force Base), the 167th Support Group used a nominalManchester, New Hampshire postal address, although that portion of the airport was on the Londonderry side of the city boundary.In 1980, the peacetime Army Reserve
chain of command was overlaid with aCAPSTONE wartime trace . In an expansion of the roundout and affiliation program begun ten years earlier, CAPSTONE purported to align every Army Reserve unit with the active and reserve component units with which they were anticipated to deploy. [James T. Currie and Richard B. Crossland, "Twice The Citizen: A History of the United States Army Reserve, 1908-1995" (2nd revised & expanded edition), Washington, DC: Office of the Chief, Army Reserve (1997), pp. 254-255.] Like other Army Reserve units, the 167th Support Group maintained lines of communication with the units -- often hundreds or thousands of miles away in peacetime -- who would presumably serve above or below them in the event of mobilisation. This communcication, in some cases, extended to coordinated annual training opportunities.Many of the 167th's units and individual soldiers rotated through
Honduras in the 1980s.Operation Fuertes Caminos ("strong roads") provided villagers with roads on which to move their crops to market, while providing invaluable real-world training and experience to reserve engineers, medical personnel, logisticians and others.Operation Nordic Shield was held in the summer of 1987. Units of the 94th Army Reserve Command; principally the 167th Support Group, the 187th Infantry Brigade (Separate), and their subordinate
battalion s and companies; deployed toCanadian Forces Base Gagetown in southern New Brunswick, to simulate the defense ofIceland againstWarsaw Pact forces, the CAPSTONE mission of both the 187th and 167th.Units under the 167th participated in a series of mobilisation exercises in the 1980s, including the Selected Reserve Call-Up (23-
25 October 1987 ), Golden Thrust '88 (November1988 ), and Proud Eagle 90 (12 October through2 November 1989 ). Each of these was designed to evaluate not only the units' ability to prepare to mobilise, but to examine the mobilisation processes, systems, and logistical coordination so as to find and correct the unanticipated flaws.In
1990 -1991 , many of the soldiers from the 167th Support Group's units were called to active duty and served both domestically and overseas in support of Operation Desert Shield andDesert Storm . Despite the commonly held belief that CAPSTONE traces were set in stone, the process of selecting units to mobilise and deploy largely ignored CAPSTONE.Operation Nordic Shield II was held in the summer of 1992. As they did five years before, the 167th Support Group, 187th Infantry Brigade and other units of the 94th ARCOM deployed to
Canadian Forces Base Gagetown in southern New Brunswick, to simulate the defense ofIceland againstWarsaw Pact forces, the CAPSTONE mission of both the 187th and 167th. Part of the 1992 exercise included lanes training as part of theUnited States Army Forces Command 's "Bold Shift" initiative to reinforce unit war-fighting task proficiency.In the 1990s, the airport's expansion necessitated a land-swap between the airport authority and the federal government, resulting in a new Army Reserve Center being built on the south edge of the airport's periphery. Since relocating, the 167th and its co-located units use a Londonderry postal address.
The 167th Support Group deployed soldiers to
Honduras andGuatemala in1999 in support ofOperation New Horizon .Global War on Terror
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In 2006, the group was reorganised as a battalion.
Continuing with Operation New Horizon, the 167th deployed members of its subordinate 94th Military Police Company to Rambala-Bocas del Toro,
Panamá in spring2007 .Campaign Participation Credits
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