501st Forward Support Battalion
"Providers"
On order, the 501st FSB deploys within the USEUCOM area of responsibility and provides CSS & CHS to the 1st Brigade, 1st Armored Division in the conduct of combat operations in a joint/combined environment.
The 501st was constituted on 1 January 1924 in the Regular Army as the Supply Battalion, 1st Armored Division and was activated 3 January 1942 at Fort Knox, Kentucky. It was disbanded 20 July 1944 in Italy.
In February 1951 it was reconstituted in the Regular Army as the Quartermaster Battalion and assigned to the 1st Armored Division and was activated 7 March 1951 at Fort Hood, Texas. In February 1957 it was redesignated as the 1st Quartermaster Battalion, but was later inactivated at Fort Polk, Louisiana in December 1957.
The unit was redesignated 3 February 1962 as the 501st Supply and Transport Battalion and activated (less company A) at Fort Hood, Texas.
The battalion was inactivated 15 December 1984 in Germany and redesignated on 1 May 1987 as the 501st Support Battalion (Forward) and activated in Germany.
