Logistic Battalion "Brescia"

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Logistic Battalion "Brescia"
Battaglione Logistico "Brescia"
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Battalion coat of arms
Active1 Oct. 1975 - 30 Oct. 1991
CountryFlag of Italy.svg  Italy
Branch Italian Army
Type Military logistics
Part of Mechanized Brigade "Brescia"
Garrison/HQ Montorio Veronese
Motto(s)"Ab origine fortis"
Anniversaries22 May 1916 - Battle of Asiago
Insignia
Unit gorget patches
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The Logistic Battalion "Brescia" (Italian : Battaglione Logistico "Brescia") is an inactive logistics unit of the Italian Army, which was assigned to the Mechanized Brigade "Brescia". [1] The regimental anniversary falls, as for all units of the Transport and Materiel Corps, on 22 May, the anniversary of the Italian Army's first major automobile use to transport reinforcements to counter the Austro-Hungarian Offensive at Asiago in 1916. [2]

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History

The battalion is the spiritual successor of the logistic units of the Royal Italian Army's 27th Infantry Division "Sila", which fought in the Second Italo-Ethiopian War and was renamed 27th Infantry Division "Brescia" on 24 May 1939. The Brescia division participated in the Western Desert campaign and was destroyed on 7 November 1942 in the Second Battle of El Alamein. [1]

As part of the 1975 army reform the units of the Infantry Division "Legnano" were reorganized and on 21 October 1975 the Mechanized Brigade "Brescia" was formed in the city of Brescia. Already on 1 October of the same year the Logistic Battalion "Brescia" had been formed in Montorio Veronese for the brigade. Initially the battalion consisted of a command, a command platoon, a supply and transport company, a medium workshop, and a vehicle park. [1] At the time the battalion fielded 692 men (38 officers, 85 non-commissioned officers, and 569 soldiers). [3]

On 12 November 1976 the battalion was granted a flag by decree 846 of the President of the Italian Republic Giovanni Leone. [1] [4]

In 1981 the battalion was reorganized and consisted then of the following units: [1]

On 27 July 1991 the Mechanized Brigade "Brescia" was disbanded, followed by the Logistic Battalion "Brescia" on 30 October 1991. On 7 November of the same year the battalion's flag was transferred to the Shrine of the Flags in the Vittoriano in Rome. [1]

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