23rd Area Support Group
The 23rd Area Support Group conducts noncombatant evacuation operations (NEO) of US Citizens and allied nationals if required, and conducts Reception, Staging, Onward movement, and Integration (RSO&I) in the groups AOR and assigned TAAs and establishes and operatees GS LOGBASEs. Provides Direct Support maintenance (DS), aviation intermediate maintenance (AVIM), as well as supply support for Class I, II, III, IV, VII, and IX products throughout the theater of operations. It performs ammunition stock accountability, visibility, and surveillance for all US titled munitions in support of EUSA and ROKA. On order, it provides title transfer operations, DS/GS ammo support to EUSA, and CIS to ROKA and US Marine Forces, Korea.
The 23rd Area Support Group is headquartered at Camp Humphreys in Pyongtaek, 130 miles northwest of Taegu. The 23rd Support Group is also responsible for the 6th Ordnance Battalion and the 194th Maintenance Battalion.
The 23rd Area Support Group was originally constituted as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 23rd Direct Support Group in the Regular Army on 24 November 1965. The unit was activated on 1 January 1966 in Korea. The unit was reorganized and redesignated as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 23rd Area Support Group on 4 May 1971. On 15 November 1974, the unit was inactivated in Korea. The 23d Area Support Group was reactivated on 16 August 1985 at Camp Humphreys, Korea.
