16th Sustainment Brigade hosts reactivation of the 95th Combat Sustainment Support Battalion

Photo By Maj. Vonnie Wright | A series of flags flying over the Panzer Kaserne Installation March 31 in Kaiserslautern, Germany. These national flags show unity as the 95th Combat Sustainment Support Battalion, 16th Sustainment Brigade, 21st Theater Sustainment Command prepare for its Reactivation Ceremony April 6 in Baumholder.  

BAUMHOLDER, RHEINLAND-PFALZ, GERMANY

03.31.2023

Story by Maj. Vonnie Wright 

21st Theater Sustainment Command

Baumholder, Germany – The U.S. Army’s 16th Sustainment Brigade invites members of the press to observe the reactivation ceremony of the 95th Combat Sustainment Support Battalion.

Lt. Col. Robin A. Eskelson and Command Sgt. Maj. Luis R. Ortiz-Escalera will assume command and responsibility of the 95th Combat Sustainment Support Battalion Thursday, 6 April 2023 at 10:00 a.m.on Smith Barracks, Baumholder, Germany, followed by a reception. The alternate inclement weather location will be the Hall of Champions. We recommend media plan to arrive on Smith Barracks, Baumholder no later than 9:15 a.m. on 6 April, 2023. The event is scheduled to conclude at approximately 2:00 p.m. A specific address/location will be provided to media who RSVP. Due to the current COVID-19 environment, a limited number of media can participate.

To register, media interested in covering the reactivation ceremony of the 95th Combat Sustainment Support Battalion should contact 1st Lt. Mitchell Humphrey at [e-mail] and [e-mail] by 2:00 p.m. on April 3, 2023 and provide:

•Full name (All participants)
•Media outlet
•Position
•E-mail address
•Cell phone number
•Vehicle Model and License Number
•All personnel must bring photo identification

The 95th Combat Sustainment Support Battalion will inherit its lineage from the former 95th Supply and Service Battalion, which was inactivated on 21 December 1972 in Germany.

The unit was first constituted on 1 May 1936 in the Regular Army as Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment, 95th Quartermaster Bakery Battalion. Later being activated on 6 April 1942 at Fort Meade, Maryland, as the 95th Quartermaster Bakery Battalion.

While various changes would take place through time, the final reorganization would come on 4 August 1965 as the unit was converted to the Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 95th or supply and Service Battalion.

The 95th Combat Sustainment Support Battalion is credited for four World War II campaigns (Normandy, Northern France, Rhineland, and Central Europe) and one unit decoration: the French Croix de Guerre with Palm, streamer embroidered NORMANDY.

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• Date Taken: 03.31.2023
• Date Posted: 03.31.2023 08:54
• Story ID: 441638
• Location: BAUMHOLDER, RHEINLAND-PFALZ, DE