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415th Base Support Battalion

In 2005, an official ceremony in Heidelberg, Germany marked the reflagging of the Installation Management Agency - Europe's Area Support Groups, Base Support Battalions, and Area Support Teams into 21 US Army Garrisons to align with the common US Army installation management structure worldwide, known as Standard Garrison Organization. As a result, the 415th Base Support Battalion was inactivated and reflagged as the US Army Garrison Kaiserslautern.

The 415th Base Support Battalion, headquarters at Pulaski Barracks, was established in the Regular Army on 16 March 1992 and assigned to the 29th Area Support Group, 21st Theater Army Area Command, Kaiserslautern, Germany, with a total strength of one. On 7 December 1992, the Battalion had grown to a strength of 7 personnel. Less than a year later in October 1993, the 415th Base Support Battalion was reassigned to the 26th Area Support Group, Heidelberg, Germany. The 415th Base Support Battalion subsequently became a fully operational base support battalion with 60 soldiers and 575 civilians assigned.

The 415th Base Support Battalion mission was to provide administrative and logistical support to all US Army military and civilian personnel, their families, and other organizations in the area of operation. The 415th Base Support Battalion received and assisted in the reception, staging, and onward movement of US reinforcing forces and acted as the command and control power projection platform as directed by higher headquarters.

The Battalion's area of responsibility was located in Europe's Kaiserslautern Strategic Deployment Platform. The 415th supported families of deployed military members and stateside units stationed there in support of contingency operations. Part of the base operations responsibilities was executing armed anti-terrorism and force protection for 10 Army installations that cover 1,150 square miles.

Unique to the 415th was its requirement to facilitate, communicate and exchange services with the Air Force's 86th Air Wing in support of the 40,000 Americans who reside in the area. In providing services without bias to the color of the uniform, the unit was building a bridge that would strengthen ties between families, the Army and Air Force. The 415th Base Support Battalion coordinated with the US Air Force to ensure base operations support was a combined effort that provided support to all US Army forces passing through its area of responsibility.

As an Army support battalion, the 415th Base Support Battalion was essential to building the Army's bridge to a joint community in the Kaiserslautern Military Community. The Battalion's responsibilities were to coordinate and provide contingency operations support and base operations support to the Kaiserslautern Military Community.