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3rd Sustainment Brigade (United States)

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447: 85: 132: 67: 184: 294: 349:, supporting the four brigades as they pushed through southern Iraq and into the capital of Baghdad. After the initial invasion and capture of Baghdad, the brigade remained in the city, supporting the 3rd Infantry Division as the unit conducted counterinsurgency and infrastructure activities in the area. It returned home to 39: 380:
and aviation brigade of the 3rd Infantry Division, however, for this deployment, the unit did not support the Division directly, as its mission in Multinational Division, North covered facilities management, not unit logistics. Brigade projects focused on building infrastructure throughout northern
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Airfield, Afghanistan, to support Operation Resolute Support, taking on the role of the 3rd Infantry Division Resolute Support Sustainment Brigade. During their planned 9-month tour they will oversee all logistics operations inside Afghanistan.
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area. Under Multinational Division, Baghdad. It returned home again in January 2006. The Division Support Brigade was reorganized as the 3rd Support Brigade on 15 June 2005, and re-designated as the 3rd Sustainment Brigade on 21 April 2006.
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The 3rd Division Sustainment Brigade has a permanent organization of two attached battalions, however this number can be changed when the unit is deployed in a theater of operations. These permanent attachments include the
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and Band, 3rd Infantry Division Support Command. On 21 May 1972, the unit was re-organized and re-designed as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 3rd Infantry Division Support Command. It was deployed to as part of the
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in Northern Iraq under the command of the 316th Expeditionary Support Command. It was relieved during a change of command ceremony on 9 August 2008, at which time it returned to Fort Stewart. It was replaced by the
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In 2024, the 3rd Sustainment Brigade was renamed as the 3rd Division Sustainment Brigade (DSB) in order to realign with new Army sustainment doctrine and unit designations.
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Though its lineage dates back to 1957, the unit was not designated as a separate unit until 2005. The 3rd Division Sustainment Brigade has served three tours in
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The unit was constituted 1 July 1957 in the regular army as Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment, 3rd Infantry Division Trains, and activated at
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along with the rest of the 3rd Infantry Division. The Brigade and its division had spearheaded the invasion into the nation of
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in the fall of 2004 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom III, leading coalition troops in control of the
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In late November 2012 the Brigade deployed to Afghanistan for its first tour in support of
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of its areas of responsibility of Multinational Division, North, comprising over a dozen
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In 2007, the Brigade saw its third deployment to Iraq during the Iraq War, relieving the
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The Division Support Command was renamed the Division Support Brigade and deployed to
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In October, 2017, the brigade and Special Troops Battalion headquarters deployed to
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Iraq. The brigade served a total of 15 months in the country, headquartered at
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In the fall of 2002, the Division Support Command deployed in support of
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buildup, should hostilities arise in the region with the
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In September 2014, the brigade deployed a sixth time to
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The Brigade left for a planned nine-month deployment to
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3rd Infantry Division Homepage: 3rd Sustainment Brigade
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3rd Infantry Division Staff. Retrieved 21 February 2008
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3rd Infantry Division Homepage: 3rd Sustainment Brigade
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Military units and formations disestablished in 2015
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3rd Sustainment Brigade

shoulder sleeve insignia
United States of America
United States Army
Sustainment Brigade
Sustainment
Brigade

3rd Infantry Division
Fort Stewart
Georgia
Distinctive unit insignia


sustainment
brigade
United States Army
Fort Stewart
Georgia
3rd Infantry Division
Iraq
Operation Iraqi Freedom
Afghanistan
87th Division Sustainment Support Battalion
Division Special Troops Battalion
Fort Stewart
Georgia
Headquarters and Headquarters Company

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