63rd Chemical Company
"Dragonmasters"
On 16 October 2007 the 63rd Chemical Company was relieved from assignment to the 101st Airborne Division. As part of the overall transformation of the 101st Airborne Division, the 63rd Chemical Company was reactivated as part of the 106th Transportation Battalion, 101st Sustainment Brigade, 101st Airborne Division.
The 63d Chemical Company is an air assault dual purpose chemical company that provides smoke, decontamination and flame field expedient weapons support to the 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault). While the company is attached to DISCOM for command and control, the smoke/decon platoons are under the operation control of their respective brigade task force during deployments. 63rd Chemical Company was attached to the 801st MSB for administrative and logistical support.
The 63rd Chemical Company traces its lineage to when it was first constituted on 1 October 1933 in the Regular Army as the 3d Chemical Company. On 12 March 1942 the unit was redesignated as the 63rd Chemical Depot Company. Inactivated on 13 October 1945, the unit was reactivated as the 63d Chemical Base Depot and Maintenance Company on 19 February 1947 and subsequently deployed with US Forces in Europe (based in Germany). The unit was again redesignated on 27 April 1951 as the 63rd Chemical Service Company and again inactivated 1 November 1954 in France.
On 1 March 1980 the unit was reactivated as the 63rd Chemical Company, assigned to the 101st Airborne Division, and activated at Fort Campbell, Kentucky. The 63d Chemical Company accompanied the 101st Airborne Division when it was deployed first to Saudi Arabia and then to Kuwait and Iraq during the early 1990s. The Company was deployed with the 101st Airborne Division as part of Operation Enduring Freedom - Afghanistan in 2001 and in 2003 as part of Operation Iraqi Freedom, where it performed the first chemical hazard mitigation and terrain decontamination of the operation, the required alleviation of more than 11,000 gallons of assorted chemicals that were deliberately poured on the ground and the streets of a neighborhood in Mosul, Iraq.
