370th Quartermaster Battalion (Water Supply)
The 96th Regional Support Command has 6,000 citizen-soldiers in six states: Utah, Colorado, Wyoming, Montana, North Dakota and South Dakota. Nearly 150 US Army Reservists from Montana, Utah and Colorado participated in relief efforts in flood-ravaged Grand Forks, ND, in April 1997. These reservists provided purified water for residents as well as facilities for other relief agencies.
The 370th Quartermaster Battalion (Water Supply) of Great Falls, MT was the command and control headquarters for a water exercise moved by the Army Reserve from California to Grand Forks. This exercise was moved to provide purified water for the flood victims within the Grand Forks area.
The 370th, together with the 889th Quartermaster Company (Supply) of Great Falls and Missoula, MT, and the 347th Quartermaster Detachment (Water Purification) of Missoula, MT, were joined in Grand Forks by soldiers from four other USAR units of the 96th Regional Support Command based in Salt Lake City, UT. These units include the 348th Quartermaster Detachment (Water Purification) of Bismarck, ND, 423d Transportation Company of Fort Carson, CO, 651st Quartermaster Company (Water Supply) of Ogden, UT, and 854th Quartermaster Company (Supply) of Logan, UT.
The Ringsak USAR Center in Grand Forks was made available to local relief officials on 23 Apr 97 and was used as a communications center by the Grand Forks Police Department, the Grand Forks County Sheriff's Office, the North Dakota Highway Patrol, the Fish and Game Department, the US Border Patrol and Federal Emergency Relief Assistance personnel. The Quartermaster units purified and distributed potable water for flood victims. The transportation unit moved the 651st's equipment from Utah to North Dakota.
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