Moving Days

The Defense Department announced today that Germany-based elements of the Army's 173rd Airborne Brigade Combat Team will relocate within Germany and to Italy in summer 2013, and also detailed a number of units that will be inactivated and returned to the United States by 2015.

A total of four battalions will be relocated.

“Two battalions will relocate from Germany to Italy; the brigade’s headquarters battalion and one infantry battalion will relocate to Caserma Ederle in Vicenza, Italy, and to the Army’s new facility in Del Din [formerly known as Dal Molin] in Vicenza,” according to DOD's announcement. “The other two battalions will relocate from Schweinfurt and Bamberg, Germany, to Grafenwoehr, Germany.”

The notice also states that, along with the previously announced inactivation of V Corps Headquarters and the 170th and 172nd Infantry Brigades, other forces will also be inactivated:

In 2013:

535th Engineer Company, Warner Barracks, Bamberg, Germany – Inactivates

12th Chemical Company, Conn Barracks, Schweinfurt, Germany – Inactivates

V Corps Headquarters, Clay Kaserne, Wiesbaden, Germany – Inactivates

172nd Infantry Brigade, Grafenwoehr, Germany – Inactivates

Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 391st Combat Service Support Battalion, Warner Barracks, Bamberg, Germany – Inactivates

B Detachment, 106th Finance Company, Katterbach Kaserne, Ansbach, Germany – Inactivates

42nd Engineer Company, Warner Barracks, Bamberg, Germany – Returns to the United States.

99th Movement Control Team, Aviano Air Base, Italy – Returns to the United States.

In 2014:

Headquarters, 18th Engineer Brigade, Conn Barracks, Schweinfurt, Germany – Inactivates

243 Engineer Detachment, Conn Barracks, Schweinfurt, Germany – Inactivates

54th Engineer Battalion, Warner Barracks, Bamberg, Germany – Inactivates

370th Engineer Company, Warner Barracks, Bamberg, Germany – Inactivates

7th Signal Brigade, Ledward Barracks, Schweinfurt, Germany – Inactivates

72nd Signal Battalion, Ledward Barracks, Schweinfurt, Germany – Inactivates

Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment, 95th Military Police Battalion, Sembach Kaserne, Kaiserslautern – Inactivates

630th Military Police Company, Warner Barracks, Bamberg, Germany – Inactivates

464th Military Police Platoon, Camp Ederle, Italy – Inactivates

511th Military Police Platoon, Livorno, Italy – Inactivates

541st Engineer Company, Warner Barracks, Bamberg, Germany – Returns to the United States.

In 2015:

230th Military Police Company, Sembach Barracks, Kaiserslautern, Germany – Inactivates

3rd Battalion, 58th Aviation Regiment (Airfield Operations Battalion), Storck Barracks, Illesheim, Germany – Returns to the United States.

In 2016:

69th Signal Battalion, Grafenwoehr, Germany – Inactivates

525th Military Police Detachment (Military Working Dogs), Baumholder, Germany -- Returns to the United States.

1st Battalion, 214th General Support Aviation Regiment structure is reduced at Clay Kaserne, Wiesbaden, by 190 soldier spaces and at Landstuhl Heliport by 50 soldier spaces.