561st Corps Support Battalion
During a 1999 rotation at the National Training Center (NTC) in which logisticians played key roles, the major training objective was the reception, staging, onward movement, and integration (RSOI) process. Several units participated from the 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault), Fort Campbell, Kentucky: 1st Infantry Brigade Task Force; 101st Aviation Brigade(-); and parts of the 101st Corps Support Group (CSG), including the 561st Corps Support Battalion (CSB). Also participating was the 3d Squadron, 7th Cavalry, 3d Infantry Division (Mechanized), from Fort Stewart, Georgia. The support operations section of the 101st CSG functioned as materiel managers for the rotation. The 561st CSB replicated the division main support battalion while performing their traditional CSB role. The task force conducted a strategic deployment via sealift to Port Hueneme, California, and executed a ground and air self-deployment to the NTC.
