440th Signal Battalion
On order, the 440th Signal Battalion rapidly deploys to provide Signal Support to V Corps or other Headquarters in support of conventional or contingency operations.
The 440th Signal Battalion was originally constituted on 18 March 1942 in the Army of the United States as the 440th Signal Battalion. It activated on 25 March 1942 at Geiger Field, WA. The unit was reorganized and re-designated on 14 December 1942 as the 440th Signal Construction Battalion, on 23 July 1944 as the 440th Signal Heavy Construction Battalion, and on 23 May 1951 as the 440th Signal Aviation Construction Battalion. It inactivated on 16 May 1956 in Korea.
The unit was redesignated on 29 September 1961 as the 440th Signal Battalion and allotted to the Regular Army. It activated on 1 October 1961 in Kaiserslautern, Germany. The unit moved to Darmstadt, Germany on 21 September 1972.
On 16 April 1980, the Battalion was reassigned to V Corps as part of the 22nd Signal Brigade.
The "Road Runners" of the 440th Signal Battalion have participated in two missions to Bosnia supporting Operations Joint Endeavor, Joint Guard and Joint Forge
the 440th Signal Battalion hosted the 23rd Frankenstein Castle Run on Friday, 3 August 2001. The history of the race can be traced to Chaplain M. Ursich, a former chaplain of the 440th Signal Battalion, who started this mini-marathon in 1977 with a group of fellow 440th Signal Battalion soldiers. Shortly after that, Chaplain Ursich was seriously injured in an exercise. In his honor, the Frankenstein Run has been held every year by the 440th Signal Battalion, except in 1996 and 1998, when the unit was deployed to Bosnia, and has grown to involve hundreds of participants from all over the world.
