Sustainment Brigades in the United States Army

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Sustainment Brigades were created as part of the early 21st century transformation of the United States Army from a division-based structure to a brigade-based army.

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Mission

The sustainment brigade is a flexible headquarters that is task organized to support unified land operations and command subordinate sustainment organizations. It is task organized with a combination of combat sustainment support battalions and functional logistics battalions [1] It is a multifunctional headquarters that integrates and employs sustainment units while planning and synchronizing sustainment operations. The sustainment brigade supports Army forces at the tactical and operational levels, providing support to brigade combat teams (BCTs), multifunctional and functional support brigades, deployable, self-contained division and corps headquarters, and other units operating in its assigned support area. The brigade is primarily concerned with the continuous management and distribution of stocks, human resources support, execution of financial management support, and allocation of maintenance in the AO to provide operational reach to maneuver commanders.

Variants

There are two Sustainment Brigade variants: Division Sustainment Brigades (DSB) and Echelon-Above-Division (EAD) Sustainment Brigades.

Echelon Above Division (EAD) Sustainment Brigades

Unit Patch ComponentHeadquarters
16th Sustainment Brigade 16th Sustainment Brigade.jpg Active Duty Baumholder, Germany
17th Sustainment Brigade 17 Sust Bde SSI.png Nevada Army National Guard Las Vegas, Nevada
55th Sustainment Brigade 55th Sustainment Brigade SSI.svg Reserve Fort Belvoir, Virginia
77th Sustainment Brigade 77th Infantry Division.patch.jpg Reserve Fort Dix, New Jersey
89th Sustainment Brigade 89th Regional Readiness Command SSI.svg Reserve Wichita, Kansas
90th Sustainment Brigade 90th Infantry Division.patch.svg Reserve North Little Rock, Arkansas
96th Sustainment Brigade 96th Infantry Division SSI.svg Reserve Salt Lake City, Utah
111th Sustainment Brigade 111ADABdeSSI.svg New Mexico Army National Guard Rio Rancho, New Mexico
300th Sustainment Brigade 300SustainBdeSSI.jpg Reserve Grand Prairie, Texas
304th Sustainment Brigade 304th Sustainment Brigade.svg Reserve March Air Force Base, California
321st Sustainment Brigade 321st Sustainment Brigade.jpg Reserve Baton Rouge, Louisiana
518th Sustainment Brigade 518 Sus Bde SSI.jpg Reserve Raleigh, North Carolina
528th Sustainment Brigade (Special Operations) (Airborne) United States Army Special Forces SSI (1958-2015).png Active Duty Fort Bragg, North Carolina

Divisional Sustainment Brigades

Shoulder Sleeve InsigniaUnitComponentHeadquartersFormer unit nameFormer shoulder
sleeve insignia
1st Cavalry Division Patch.svg 1st Cavalry Division Sustainment Brigade Active Duty Fort Cavazos, Texas 4th Sustainment Brigade 4th Sustainment Brigade.svg
United States Army 1st Armored Division CSIB.svg 1st Armored Division Sustainment Brigade Active Duty Fort Bliss, Texas 15th Sustainment Brigade 15th Sustainment Brigade SSI.svg
U.S. Army 1st Infantry Division CSIB.png 1st Infantry Division Sustainment Brigade Active Duty Fort Riley, Kansas 1st Sustainment Brigade 1st Sustainment Brigade.svg
2nd Infantry Division SSI (full color).svg 2nd Infantry Division Sustainment Brigade Active Duty Camp Humphreys, South Korea 501st Sustainment Brigade 501st Sustainment Brigade.jpg
3rd Infantry Division SSI (1918-2015).svg 3rd Infantry Division Sustainment Brigade Active Duty Fort Stewart, Georgia 3rd Sustainment Brigade 3rd Sustainment Brigade.jpg
4th Infantry Division SSI.svg 4th Infantry Division Sustainment Brigade Active Duty Fort Carson, Colorado 43rd Sustainment Brigade 43rdSBSSI.JPG
Shoulder sleeve insignia of the 10th Mountain Division (1944-2015).svg 10th Mountain Division Sustainment Brigade Active Duty Fort Drum, New York 10th Sustainment Brigade 10th Sustainment Brigade.jpg
25th Infantry Division CSIB.svg 25th Infantry Division Sustainment Brigade Active Duty Schofield Barracks, Hawaii 45th Sustainment Brigade 45th Sustainment Brigade SSI.svg
28th Infantry Division SSI (1918-2015).svg 28th Infantry Division Sustainment Brigade Ohio Army National Guard Springfield, Ohio 371st Sustainment Brigade 371SustainBdeSSI.jpg
29th Infantry Division SSI.svg 29th Infantry Division Sustainment Brigade North Carolina Army National Guard Greensboro, North Carolina 113th Sustainment Brigade 113sbunitinsignia.jpg
34th 'Red Bull' Infantry Division SSI.svg 34th Infantry Division Sustainment Brigade Illinois Army National Guard Chicago, Illinois 108th Sustainment Brigade 108th Sustainment Brigade SSI.svg
35th Infantry Division SSI.svg 35th Infantry Division Sustainment Brigade Tennessee Army National Guard Chattanooga, Tennessee 230th Sustainment Brigade 230SustainBdeSSI.jpg
36th Infantry Division SSI.png 36th Infantry Division Sustainment Brigade Texas Army National Guard Dallas, Texas 36th Sustainment Brigade 36 Sus Bde SSI.jpg
38th Infantry Division SSI.svg 38th Infantry Division Sustainment Brigade Indiana Army National Guard Kokomo, Indiana 38th Sustainment Brigade 38SustainBdeSSI.jpg
40th Infantry Division CSIB.svg 40th Infantry Division Sustainment Brigade California Army National Guard Long Beach, California 224th Sustainment Brigade 224SustainBdeSSI.jpg
42nd Infantry Division SSI.svg 42nd Infantry Division Sustainment Brigade New York Army National Guard New York, New York 369th Sustainment Brigade 369SustainBdeSSI.jpg
82 Airborne Patch.svg 82nd Airborne Division Sustainment Brigade Active Duty Fort Bragg, North Carolina 82nd Sustainment Brigade 82SustainBdeSSI.jpg
Combat service identification badge of the 101st Airborne Division.png 101st Airborne Division Sustainment Brigade Active Duty Fort Campbell, Kentucky 101st Sustainment Brigade 101st Sustainment Brigade.jpg

References

  1. Army Techniques Publication 4-93, April 2016
  2. Army Field Manual 4-0, July 2019

See also