548th Corps Support Battalion
The 548th Corps Support Battalion provides timely maintenance, transportation, supply and field service (laundry and bath) support to Corps units stationed in or passing through the battalion area of responsibility. The 548th CSB provides command and control for 3 to 7 companies/detachments. The 548th is habitually aligned with the 10th Mountain Division (Light Infantry), providing general support to the 10th Division Support Command (DISCOM).
The 548th is a Corps Support Battalion located locally at Fort Drum as part of the 10th Division Support Command in support of the 10th Mountain Division (LI). They provide the division with outload support whenever the brigades within the division deploy. The battalion consists of the Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment company, 590th Field Service Company, 57th Transportation Company, 59th Chemical Company, and 514th Maintenance Company. The 514th had numerous maintenance soldiers serving in Bosnia as part of the SFOR6mission. The battalion stays busy with numerous support missions to JRTC and NTC, as well as their scheduled battalion training exercises.
The 548th Corps Support Battalion was originally constituted on 23 February 1943 in the Army of the United States as the 548th Quartermaster Service Battalion. It activated 25 May 1943 at Camp Ellis, IL.
The battalion was broken up on 20 September 1943 and its elements were reorganized and redesgnated as follows:
- Headquarters & Headquarters Detachment as Headquarters & Headquarters Detachment, 548th Quartermaster Battalion.
- Companies A, B, C, and D as the 3184th, 3186th and 3187th Quartermaster Service Companies, respectively hereafter separate lineages.
Headquarters & Headquarters Detachments, 548th Quartermaster Battalion, inactivated on 28 September 1945 at Camp Anza, CA. It was redesignated on 10 January 1967 as Headquarters & Headquarters Company, 548th Supply & Services Battalion, and allotted to the Regular Army. It activated 25 March 1967 at Fort McClellan, AL.
The unit was reorganized and redesignated on 16 November 1981 as Headquarters & Headquarets Detachment, 548th Supply & Services Battalion; moved to Fort Drum from Fort McClellan in 1987. It was reorganized and redesiganted on 16 November 1993 as Headquarters & Headquarters Detachment, 548th Corps Support Battalion.
