- 82nd Sustainment Brigade (United States)
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unit_name= 82d Sustainment Brigade
caption=82d Sustainment Brigade shoulder sleeve insignia
dates=March 16, 2006 - Present
country=United States
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branch=United States Army
type=Sustainment Brigade
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command_structure=82nd Airborne Division
garrison=Fort Bragg, NC
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nickname= Providers
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motto= "Supporting Freedom"
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notable_commanders=The 82nd Sustainment Brigade is a sustainment
brigade of theUnited States Army . It provides sustainment support to the tenants onFort Bragg, North Carolina including the 82nd Airbone Division.History
The 82nd Support Group was constituted September 1, 1957 at Fort Bragg. It was composed of units with long histories with the
82nd Airborne Division , dating back to the First and Second World Wars.On May 25, 1964 the unit reorganized as the 82nd Division Support Command, or
DISCOM . A year later, the unit deployed to theDominican Republic with the 82nd Airborne Division in support ofOperation Power Pack .In 1983 the unit again deployed to combat, this time to
Grenada in support ofOperation Urgent Fury . Then in 1989, the unit supported the first combat jump since World War II while supportOperation Just Cause inPanama .In August 1990, during Operation Desert Shield, paratroopers from the unit protected the
XVIII Airborne Corps ' left flank during the subsequentOperation Desert Storm .The unit returned to combat again in 2003 during the invasion of
Iraq . For the first time, these service and support paratroopers found themselves on the front lines, as supply convoys became the central target of resistance fighters.Hurricane Katrina provided a unique and unexpected mission for the paratroopers of the unit, as they were deployed to provide assistance to the citizens ofLouisiana .On March 16, 2006 the unit reorganized as the 82d Sustainment Brigade under the Army's new modular transformation redesign. In August of that year, the newly reorganized unit deployed to Iraq in support of
Operation Iraqi Freedom VI .On February 29th 2008 the 82d Sustainment Brigade added the 264th CSSB (Combat Sustainment Support Battalion) as a subordinate unit. The 264th has a long history of supporting the United States Army in a myrid of campagins dating back to World War II.
As a sustainment brigade, the unit supports, but is not assigned to, the 82d Airborne Division. The brigade's new shoulder sleeve insignia is featured at this link. [http://www.tioh.hqda.pentagon.mil/Sustain/82SustainmentBrigade.htm]
Brigade Units
*STB, Special Troops Battalion
**Headquarters and Headquarters Company (HHC)
**11th Quartermaster Company
**82nd Signal Company
**18th Human Resources Company
**125th Mail Movement Team
**82nd Financial Management Company
**21st Chemical Company*264th CSSB, Combat Sustainment Support Battalion
**Headquarters and Headquarters Company (HHC)
**659th Maintenance Company
**364th Quartermaster Company
**612th Quartermaster Company
**259th Quartermaster Company
**600th Quartermaster Company
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