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956th Transportation Company

The 956th Transportation Company was inactivated in 2009 as part of the closure of Fort Monmouth, New Jersey resulting from Base Realignment and Closing Commission (BRAC) recommendations.

As part of the 596th Transportation Group (Terminal), the mission of the 956th Transportation Company was to synchronize Defense Transportation System surface cargo movements and provide Traffic Management and Single Port management for the Department of Defense in peace and crisis. It planned, coordinated, and accomplish the expeditious and economical movement and documentation of DOD sponsored cargo through terminals and facilities in Alaska from its headquarters in Anchorage. It would deploy/redeploy US forces as assigned by Commander, MTMC DSC and advise and assist wartraced US Army Reserve units as assigned by Commander, MTMC DSC. The Company also participate in Joint Chiefs of Staff exercises and was prepared to deploy military personnel and Emergency-Essential Civilians outside the continental United States.

On 23 July 2001 it was announced that the Army had approved a sweeping reorganization of the Military Traffic Management Command that would make fundamental changes in the organization's structure, staffing and operations. All the changes were to be in effect by 30 June 2003. Implementation of the proposal was complete by 30 September 2001. As part of the changes, the 596th Transportation Group was inactivated on 20 September 2001. The Group's units were inactivated or reassigned. The 834th Transportation Battalion became directly assigned to the MTMC. The 956th Transportation Company was inactivated and its personnel converted to a detachment of the 833rd Transportation Battalion, based in Seattle, Washington. The unit commander's position was eliminated.

The Company was subsequently reactivated at Fort Monmouth, New Jersey, as an element of the 597th Transportation Brigade. There it took over for the 834th Transportation Battalion, which was moved to Beaumont, Texas. The Company had 17 personnel assigned to it, instead of the Battalion's 32, and reductions included one officer and 15 civilians. The new unit commander was a major, in lieu of the lieutenant colonel who had commanded the previous Battalion. One soldier was added to the Company's organizational structure.

In New Jersey, the 956th Transportation Company helped helped establish the Port of Philadelphia become one of the nation's strategic ports. On 20 September 2008, the Company completed its last loadout at the Port of Philadelphia in preparation for its inactivation as part of the closure of Fort Monmouth resulting from Base Realignment and Closing Commission (BRAC) recommendations.