3rd Sustainment Brigade Special Troops Battalion
Troops Battalion, Division Support Brigade, 3rd Infantry Division (Mechanized)
"Hellraisers"
The 3rd Sustainment Brigade Special Troops Battalion consists of: Headquarters and Headquarters Company (Warhorse), A Company (Signal), the 92nd Chemical Company, the3rd Finance Detachment, and the 51st and 274th Movement Control Teams. The Battalion HHC provides life support and logistics for all assigned personnel and equipment in the 3rd Sustainment Brigade Headquarters in support of combined arms offensive and defensive operations worldwide.
Company A plans, installs, operates, and maintains the 3rd Sustainment Brigade voice and data communications network to provide reliable communications. The 92nd Chemical Company provides chemical decontamination, and smoke support to the 3rd Infantry Division in order to support mobile combined offensive and defensive operations. The 51st and 274th Movement Control teams provide management of surface movements of personnel and materiel in an area.
The 3rd Sustainment Brigade Special Troops Battalion was activated as the Division Support Brigade Troops Battalion at Fort Stewart on 10 September 2004. The Battalion consisted of the HHC, Division Support Brigade, the 92nd Chemical Company, and an Area Support Medical Company.
The Battalion deployed in January 2005 to Baghdad, IRaq as part of Multi-national Division-Baghdad (MND-B) in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom III. There the Battalion added the 3rd Battalion, 117th Field Artillery (Forward) of the Alabama National Guard, and the 550th Area Support Medical Company. The Battalion provided level II medical care and convoy security for materiel and supplies to the numerous forward operating bases across MND-B.
In December 2005, the Battalion deployed to Kuwait where it facilitied that redeployment of the 3rd Infantry Division. In April 2006, the Battalion was redesignated the 3rd Sustainment Brigade Special Troops Battalion.
In July 2007 the 3rd Sustainment Brigade, including the 3rd Sustainment Brigade Special Troops Battalion, conducted a relief in place of the 45th Sustainment Brigade, 13th Sustainment Command (Expeditionary) at Forward Operating Base Q-West in Iraq. The mission was to provide combat service support to Multinational Division, North, which included more than a dozen forward operating bases. This was the third deployment for the 3rd Sustainment Brigade.
In August 2008 the 16th Sustainment Brigade, 3rd Sustainment Command relieved the 3rd Sustainment Brigade, which returned to Fort Stewart, Georgia.
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