553rd Corps Support Battalion
The mission of the 553rd Corps Support Battalion is to, on order, deploy by land, sea, and air; occupy marshaling area; organize for combat and operate as a multi-funcitonal corps support battalion; arm, fix, fuel, move and sustain units. On order, redeploy to home station.
The 553rd Corps Support Battalion was originally constituted on 23 February 1943 in the Army of the United States as the 553rd Quartermaster Service Battalion. It activated on 25 June 1943 at Camp Ellis, IL.
The battalion was broken up on 20 September 1943 and its elements reorganized and redesignated as follows:
- Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment as Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment, 553rd Quartermaster Battalion
- (Companies A, B, C, and D as the 3188th, 3189th, 3190th, and 3191st Quartermaster Service Companies, respectively - hereafter separate lineages)
Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment, 553rd Quartermaster Battalion, inactivated on 11 November 1945 at Fort Francis E. Warren, WY.
The unit was redesignated on 10 January 1967 as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 553rd Supply and Service Battalion, and allotted to the Regular Army. It activated on 1 March 1967 at Fort Hood, TX.
It was reorganized and redesignated on 16 September 1982 as Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment, 553rd Supply and Service Battalion; and on 16 October 1993 as Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment, 553rd Support Battalion.
