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regional area support. The brigade was upgraded to a general officer command and the headquarters moved to Panzer
Kaserne, Kaiserslautern, Germany, (becoming 21st Support Command, now 21st Theater Sustainment Command). At the same time, the HQ, 15th MP Brigade and half of the USAREUR Office of the Provost Marshal staff moved into part of Building 333 (15th had been on ROB Kaserne in Kaiserslautern and OPM came from Building 7, Campbell Bks, Heidelberg). The USAREUR Provost Marshal had become the Mannheim Community Commander, assisted by a deputy community commander who managed nearly 1,400 soldiers and civilians of the new U.S. Military Community Activity-Mannheim created as one of the 21st SUPCOM communities. USMCA-Mannheim provided base operations support for tenant units in the Mannheim area with its headquarters staff in Building 335 on Taylor and other sections in various buildings around the post. That same year, HHC, 42nd MP Group (Customs) moved from Campbell Bks, Heidelberg, to the other half of Building 333 and parts of Bldg 334 on Taylor Bks. The group was charged with providing customs enforcement and maintaining liaison and cooperation with German customs authorities. The other half of OPM moved to Bldg 333 after the 15th Military Police Brigade was inactivated in 1976
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mounted on M4 floating metal pontoons, with half of the bridge on each side of the river. The bridge halves would swing from each side of the river and when they met in the middle of the river they were fastened together with huge steel pins. Each line company was in charge of three bridges that were spaced at various distances along the Rhine, some as far as 30 miles apart. Their second mission was to destroy all the bridges across the Rhine in case of a Soviet invasion. The battalion was replaced by the
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Engr Bn, in 1962 Companies D and E of the 547th were moved to
Tompkins Barracks and became Companies of the 20th Eng Bn the following year. On 15 March 1963, by General Order Number 13 from Seventh Army, the following provisional redesignations took effect: Company D, 547th Engineer Battalion became Company D,
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Engineer Battalion returned to Germany following a "gyroscope" move, that is, a temporary relocation of a unit to the United States, and was stationed on Kelley Barracks, Darmstadt. The 547th was an 11th Engr Gp unit supplemented with two additional companies from the inactivating 37th
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Civilian Support Center in Kaiserslautern) was activated as a heavy equipment transporter company located at Taylor Barracks. Its big tank transporters occupied the motor pool next to the parade field and moved the tanks of the armored brigade stationed on
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Building 346 on Taylor Barracks until 1974 when it was inactivated. It commanded 68th Signal Battalion located at Nellingen Airfield (with companies in Karlsruhe, Neu Ulm and Giessen) and the 447th Sig Bn located in Prüm (with companies in
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to build various military facilities. One of these was then called Rhein
Ammunition Depot, now called Rhine Ordnance Barracks. In 1950 the French zone roads and economy were lagging far behind the British and American zones. The escalation of the Cold War mandated the French zone roads be upgraded.
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Germany. When TASCOM merged with U.S. Army Europe headquarters in 1974, the missions of 1st Support Brigade were expanded to include base operations support for eight military communities as well as the management of
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Companies A and C, 115th Supply and Service Battalion, were quartered at Taylor Barracks in 1963. Company C was a civilian labor service company that provided daily labor details to the various operational sites in the battalion. The 115th had its HQ on Autobahn Kaserne, Seckenheim, and was a 1st
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The 109th Engineer Battalion, a South Dakota National Guard unit called up during the Korean War, arrived in Germany in June 1951 and was quartered in Taylor Barracks assigned to the 11th Engineer Group. The 109th was in charge of nine bridges over the Rhine river. Standard M2 Bailey Bridges were
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bridge near Kaiserslautern destroyed by German engineers near the war’s end made long stretches of the autobahn useless. The 503rd built a by pass road around the bridge to facilitate traffic movement on the Autobahn. In early 1951, the entire company moved from Taylor to
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