From: Graham Wooden (graham@g-rock.net)
Date: Thu Apr 13 2006 - 07:48:40 PDT
Wow! That's some great detailed history.
My M1009 has "ORG 4" on the front and rear of it - what does that mean?
Thanks!
-graham
http://m1009.com
On 4/12/06 7:37 PM, "Wayne Harris" <papercu@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Now the 99th Regional Readiness Command
> was the 99th Regional Support Command.
> J2 should the company it was assigned to.
> The 99th Regional Readiness Command is comprised of 185 units served by more
> than 20,000 soldiers in Pennsylvania, Virginia, West Virginia, Maryland,
> Delaware, and the District of Columbia. Units of the 99th RSC span the
> spectrum of the Combat Support and Combat Service Support branches of the
> Army. Of the 99th's units, 41 are designated as Force Support Package units -
> units which will be the first called in the event of a global crisis or
> contingency.
>
> The 99th Regional Readiness Command is responsible for over 200 facilities
> including Army Reserve Centers, Army Maintenance Support Activities, Equipment
> Concentration Sites, local training areas and air support facilities. The 99th
> is responsible for an annual budget of more than $70 million dollars.
>
> Today's 99th RRC is rich in heritage, lineage and honors from World Wars I and
> II; The Korean and Vietnam Wars; Operations Urgent Fury, Just Cause;
> Operations Desert Shield/Storm, and Operation Joint Guard/Endeavor, the
> peacekeeping mission in the Balkan Republics. The 99th Regional Support
> Command was officially organized on April 16, 1996, becoming one of 10
> regional support commands which were formerly 20 Army Reserve commands located
> in the United States. The 99th Headquarters in Oakdale, Pa., absorbed the then
> 97th and 79th Army Reserve Commands during this restructuring transition
> period.
>
> The 99th's original roots began on July 23, 1918, when the unit was
> constituted as the 99th Division in Camp Wheeler, Ga. On June 24, 1921, it was
> reconstituted as the 99th (Checkerboard) Division and assigned to the
> Organized Reserve in Pittsburgh. The 99th assumed a Military Police mission in
> January 1942. Then, on April 1, 1942, it was reorganized as the 99th Infantry
> Division.
>
> On November 15, 1942, the 99th was ordered to Camp Van Dorn, Miss. to conduct
> combat training. The 99th Infantry Division arrived in England, 10 October
> 1944, moved to Le Havre, France, 3 November, and proceeded to Aubel, Belgium,
> to prepare for combat. The Division first saw action on the 9th, taking over
> the defense of the sector north of the Roer River between Schmidt and
> Monschau. After defensive patrolling, the 99th probed the Siegfried Line
> against heavy resistance, 13 December. The Von Rundstedt attack caught the
> Division on the 16th. Although cut up and surrounded in part, the 99th held as
> a whole until reinforcements came. Then it drew back gradually to form
> defensive positions east of Elsenborn on the 19th. Here it held firmly against
> violent enemy attacks. From 21 December 1944 to 30 January 1945, the unit was
> engaged in aggressive patrolling and reequipping. It attacked toward the
> Monschau Forest, 1 February, mopping up and patrolling until it was relieved
> for training and rehabilitation, 13 February. On 2 March, 1945, the Division
> took the offensive, moving toward Keln and crossing the Erft Canal near
> Glesch. After clearing towns west of the Rhine, it crossed the river at
> Remagen on the 11th and continued to Linz and to the Wied. Crossing on the
> 23d, it pushed east on the Koln-Frankfurt highway to Giessen. Against light
> resistance it crossed the Dill River and pushed on to Krofdorf-Gleiberg,
> taking Giessen 29 March. The 99th then moved to Schwarzenau, 3 April, and
> attacked the southeast sector of the Ruhr pocket on the 5th. Although the
> enemy resisted fiercely, the Ruhr pocket collapsed with the fall of Iserlohn,
> 16 April. The last drive began on 23 April. The 99th crossed the Ludwig Canal
> against stiff resistance and established a bridgehead over the Altmuhl River,
> 25 April. The Danube was crossed near Eining on the 27th and the Isar at
> Landshut, 1 May, after a stubborn fight. The attack continued without
> opposition to the Inn River and Giesenhausen when VE-day came.
>
> With the war in Europe over, the 99th conducted occupational duties until
> returning to America and inactivating on September 27, 1945.
>
> Reactivated as the 99th U.S. Army Reserve Command on Dec 22, 1967, the 99th
> has since remained in the Army Reserve. While this reorganization of the
> entire Army Reserve was occurring, American involvement in Vietnam was
> escalating. There was no significant call-up of Reserve soldiers during
> Vietnam; however, units and individual soldiers of the 99th ARCOM served with
> distinction during the war. The 630th Transportation Company was activated on
> May 13, 1968, served 11 months in South Vietnam and returned home to
> Washington, Pa., in August 1969. While in Vietnam soldiers of the 630th earned
> two Purple Hearts and 14 Bronze Stars.
>
> Units and members of the 99th were deployed to Grenada during Operation Urgent
> Fury in 1983 and in 1989 they were sent to Panama for Operation Just Cause.
>
> After Iraq invaded Kuwait in August 1990, 22 99th RSC units with more than
> 2,000 soldiers deployed to Saudi Arabia, Europe and other locations. On
> February 25, 1991, during the last few hours of the Gulf War, a SCUD missile
> destroyed a barracks that housed members of the 99th Regional Support
> Command's 14th Quartermaster Detachment. In the single, most devastating
> attack on U.S. forces during that war, 29 soldiers died and 99 wounded. The
> 14th Quartermaster Detachment, from Greensburg, Pa., lost 13 soldiers and
> suffered 43 wounded. The 99th's involvement in operations Desert Shield and
> Storm ended with the demobilization of the last unit on Sept. 21, 1991.
>
> Since 1995, nearly 1,200 99th Regional Support Command soldiers have deployed
> in support of operations in Bosnia. In addition to units, individual soldiers
> have volunteered to fill shortfalls in the active Army.
>
> In late 2003 all Regional Support Commands were re-designated to Regional
> Readiness Commands.
>
> In the 2005 BRAC Recommendations, DoD recommended to disestablish the HQ 99th
> Regional Readiness Command located at Pitt USARC, Coraopolis, PA. The DoD
> would instead establish a Northeast Regional Readiness Command Headquarters at
> Fort Dix, NJ, which, according to DoD, would further support the
> re-engineering and streamlining of the Command and Control structure of the
> Army Reserves. Wayne
>
>
>
> ----------------------------------------
>> To: mil-veh@mil-veh.org
>> From: walt1903@att.net
>> Subject: [MV] M1009 Bumper Markings
>> Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2006 21:51:49 +0000
>>
>> Greetings All !!!
>> My latest M1009 has 99RSC on the pass side and J2 on right side
>> of bumper. Any ideas what they mean ???
>> Thanks...
>> Bob
>
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