1st Personnel Service Battalion
The 1st Personnel Service Battalion's mission is to on order, deploy (by air, rail and/or sea). Establish PSB area of operations (AO). Provide direct Personnel Service Support (PSS) to designated units. Be prepared to relocate the PSB. Provide for the defense, security and life support of all assigned and attached personnel. On order, redeploy upon completion of the mission.
The 1st Personnel Service Battalion was originally constituted 1 June 1944 in the Army of the United States as the 518th Replacement Company and activated 20 June 1944 at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, with the mission of inprocessing of new soldiers for the 82d Airborne Division. After World War II, the company was then inactivated 3 October 1945 at Camp Stoneman, California. On 27 September 1951, the company was allotted to the regular army and reactivated in order to provide personnel support in Japan and Pacific area on 7 November 1951. The company was again inactivated on 10 May 1954. In order to provide personnel service support in Vietnam, the company was redesignated as the 518th Personnel Company on 23 March 1966, at Fort Dix, New Jersey. In Vietnam on 18 March 1973, the company was inactivated and on 1 October 1985 reactivated as the 1st Personnel Service Company, supporting the "Big Red One," 1st Infantry Division, at Fort Riley, Kansas. In 1990 and 1991, the unit deployed in order to provide personnel service support in Operation Desert Shield and Operation Desert Storm. On 16 January 1995, the unit was reorganized and redesignated as the 1st Personnel Service Battalion.
