16th Sustainment Brigade
The 16th Sustainment Brigade is a sustainment brigade of the United States Army based at Smith Barracks in Baumholder, Germany. It is a subordinate unit of the 21st Theater Sustainment Command of the Seventh Army. Activated in the summer of 2007, the brigade traces its lineage to the 7th and 16th Corps Support Groups which combined to form it. As the only sustainment brigade active in US Army Europe, the brigade provides sustainment for all of the forces of US Army's commands for Europe and Africa. It saw two deployments to Iraq in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom as the 16th Corps Support Group. It deployed to Iraq for its first tour as a Sustainment brigade from July 2008 to October 2009. Organization 2023 The headquarters of the 16th Sustainment Brigade is located in Baumholder and the brigade is subordinate to 21st Theater Sustainment Command, which in turn is subordinate to the United States Army Europe and Africa. As of May 2023 brigade consists of the following units: 16th Sustainment Brigade, in Baumholder (Germany) 16th Sustainment Brigade Special Troops Battalion, in Baumholder (Germany) 18th Combat Sustainment Support Battalion, in Grafenwöhr (Germany) 39th Movement Control Battalion, in Kaiserslautern (Germany) 106th Finance