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142nd Supply & Service Battalion
3rd Support Command
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Battalion History ()

 
Battalion History
1981
142nd Supply & Service Bn DUI
(Source: 3rd Support Command Log, Mach 1981)
142nd Officially Activated

The 142nd Supply and Service Battalion is scheduled to be officially activated on March 16, according to Assistant Adjutant 2nd Lt Bruce White.

"The purpose for forming the 142nd was to gain better control for supply and service inventories such as food, fuel, individual equipment , construction materials and major items such as wheeled vehicles, " White said.

The companies that came together to form the new battalion were once part of maintenance units. The 26th and 29th Supply and Service Companies were from the 85th Maintenance Battalion, and the 24th Supply and Service Company is from the 19th Maintenance Battalion.

The supplies handled by the 142nd are distributed throughout the V Corps area.
If you have more information on the history or organization of the 142nd S&S Bn, please contact me.
 
(Source: Email from Bruce L. White)

As I was viewing your website, I came across this page. Low and behold, there was my name in quotes - I'm the 2LT being quoted. I've since moved on to bigger and better things.

A little more to add. The 142d was actually headquartered at Mainz-Kastel Storage Facility, located between Mainz and Wiesbaden. The Headquarters and Headquarters Company was located at Camp Pieri in Wiesbaden. 

The first Battalion Commander (who served until the summer of 2002) was LTC Richard E. Beale. The XO was CPT (P) Gary L. Juskowiak.  He later commanded the battalion in the late 1980's. 

In 1993, the 142d was transferred to Fort Polk and redesignated as the 142d Corps Support Battalion, where it continues to be stationed. 
 
(Source: Email from Jamie France, 56th RPSC)
When I was stationed in Germany 1989-1994, the 142nd also had another company, the 56th RPSC (Repair Parts). This company had the peace-time mission of supporting ERF V (European Redistribution Facility, V Corps). 56th RPSC was billeted at Pioneer Kaserne in Hanau, and the ERF V was on a different kaserne over in Grossauheim. I was assigned to 56th RPSC as Platoon Leader/Company XO for a short time after my 3rd Armored Division unit drew down (122nd Main Support Bn), before I went on to an assignment at 3rd COSCOM HQ in Wiesbaden. Commander of 142nd during my time there was LTC Nancy Burton. I was 1LT Jamie Hine; now I'm civilian, Jamie France.

Love your website. It's bringing tears to my eyes -- I'm getting all sentimental… I was a dependent stationed in Babenhausen (1973-75) and in Hanau (1975-77) with my father. I have nothing but happy childhood memories of being a kid in Germany… especially because my dad (CPT Don Watt) would take me out to his Hawk missile sites or to the motor pool and I'd climb all over the equipment, in the rain and mud… Who'd have thought that I would grow up and be a Quartermaster officer also stationed in Hanau (1989-92), visiting all the same kasernes that I remembered from 15 years before, seeing the apartment in Old Argonner where I lived as a 5th grader… drinking beer at the same O'Club in Old Argonner where 15 years before I had taken ballet lessons (in the ballroom with Fr. Jutta Harding).

One of your mystery photos, the IG Farben bldg, really stirred up emotions. It was V Corps HQ, and it was right next door to the Frankfurt Officers Club (Terrace Club). I remember that there was an outdoor floating stage on a pond next to that O'Club where community theater productions were performed. My mother and I were very involved in Hanau's Five Pfennig Playhouse (on New Argonner) -- acting, singing, directing productions. On occaison we would be invited to bring one of our shows to that floating stage. It was very magical for a girl of 10 years old, the pond was framed by weeping willows, the audience was seated on the grassy plain with the water between them and the stage. As the sun would set, the stage lights would come up and the show would begin. When I went back in the '90's the pond was there, but no one could remember there being any stage or shows.