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| Sp5 Randy Llewellyn was responsible for the cover art on the Jan 1985 REFORGER 85 issues of the 3rd Suport Command newspaper, SUPCOM Log. His design captures 3rd SUPCOM units in the field - all nine unit creasts and the 3rd SUPCOM logo. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Headquarters moves to Wiesbaden this spring By Norm Bothun Third Support Command will permanently move its headquarters and most of its Special Troops Battalion to Wiesbaden Air Base this Spring. Most elements of Special Troops Battalion will begin moving as early as the middle of May. Headquarters offiicials say the unit move should be completed June 20, when the 17th Data Processing Detachment establishes its operation. The bulk of the Headquarters move will take place during the first week of June. Coinciding with the Headquarters and Special Troops move is the movement of Headquarters, 68th Medical Group and its 12th Evacuation Hospital, also to the air base. News of the move was made public after V Corps officials formally notified the Wiesbaden Lord Mayor in late February. Soldiers in 3rd SupCom had known of the move for several months and, as of mid-March, about 60 Special Troops Battalion soldiers were residing with their families in Wiesbaden housing. Under movement plans, Headquarters, 3rd Support Command and Special Troops Battalion will establish operations on Wiesbaden Air Base following a $1.3 million renovation program. |
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| The commander of 3rd SupCom will wear two hats after the move. In addition to being the SupCom commander, he will become the MiICom commander at an undetermined date. Wiesbaden MiICom soldiers will wear the 3rd SupCom patch. Headquarters and Special Troops Battalion will join the 68th Medical Group and 29th Supply and Service Company at the air base. Also in Wiesbaden, but at Camp Pieri, is the command's 14th Maintenance Company. Near the Rhine River in Mainz-Kastel is the 142nd Supply and Service Battalion. According to Lt. Col. Robert S. Hartman, Assistant Chief of Staff, talk of the Wiesbaden move began a few years ago but action wasn't taken until Task Force Lanham was formed in the spring on 1984. Under the direction of the 3rd's deputy commander, Col. Michael C. Lanham, a task force was established to propose the move to V Corps and USAREUR, and execute it. Sixteen in-progress reviews later, "Things are starting to crystalize," Hartman said. (Webmaster Note: The 95th Chemical Company in Giessen is the only Special Troops unit that will remain at its present location under the movement plan. |
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| Headquarters completes unit move to Wiesbaden By Norm Bothun It was anything but easy. But after months of planning and weeks of execution, Headquarters, 3rd Support Command, and elements of Special Troops Battalion finished moving to Wiesbaden Air Base June 19. Off the original move schedule by three days, the Corps Movements Control Center was the last Headquarters element to be moved and it took 181st Transportation Battalion to do it. According to a 3rd SupCom transportation official, shipments of household goods of soldiers on PCS orders took priority. Subsequently, the 181st transporters were called in and CMCC soldiers became the movers. Third SupCom units now in Wiesbaden include the 68th Medical Group and all of its units, except the 7th Combat Support Hospital, which remains in Pirmasens; Special Troops Battalion and its units, except the 95th Chemical Company, in Giessen and the 17th Data Processing Detachment, which will remain in Frankfurt until October; the 142nd Supply and Service Battalion with its Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment and 29th S&S Co., and the 14th Maintenance Company, 19th Maintenance Battalion. About 1,000 new soldiers came to Wiesbaden as a result of the 68th, 3rd SupCom headquarters and Special Troops Battalion moves. As part of the command's move to the city, the 3rd SupCom commander assumed control of the Wiesbaden Military Community June 14. MIICom solidiers now wear the 3rd SupCom patch and unit crest. An official SupCom and community change of command ceremony will take place July 16 at the Air Base when Brig. Gen. William B. McGrath assumes command. Under the code name "Task Force Lanham," planning for the move started in the spring of 1984. Wiesbaden had been an 8th Infantry Division military community until 1984, when its 4th Bridgade was deactivated. Since then the MiICom has been a V Corps community and its soldiers have worn the V Corps patch. The "hole" created by the 4th Brigade deactivation and timing made 3rd SupCom the best candidate for the backfill. The move enabled 3rd SupCom to consolidate its headquarters with its battalion operations and establish an identity separate of V Corps. Under Task Force Landham, the command proposal was developed and presented to V Corps, and adopted. The telephone system remains the command's only major problem left to be resolved as a result of the move. Wiesbaden currently does not have sufficient trunk lines to handle the SupCom's large volume of daily telephone traffic. However, several initiatives are underway to alleviate the situation. Plans for a new "wiring diagram" are underway, so that the headquarters' new telephone numbers can be distributed throughout the command. |
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