167th Support Battalion (United States)
| 167th Support Group (Corps), 1971–2006 167th Support Battalion, 2006–present |
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| Active | 1971–2006 (group) 2006–present (battalion) |
| Country |
 United States
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| Branch | United States Army Reserve |
| Type | Support (logistics) |
| Role | command & control of subordinate logistical companies |
| Size | group 1971–2006 battalion 2006–present |
| Part of | Forces Command |
| Garrison/HQ | Londonderry, New Hampshire |
| Motto(s) | "Links of Strength" |
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| 167th Support Group color | _colour.png) |
The 167th Support Battalion is a support battalion of the United States Army Reserve based at Londonderry, New Hampshire. The battalion is now subordinate to the 655th Regional Support Group of the 316th Sustainment Command (Expeditionary).
Activated in 1971 as the 167th Support Group (Corps), it was reorganised as a battalion in 2006. The 167th is a logistical support battalion capable of a variety of actions, capable of independent operations and taking on subordinate units to fulfill a larger scale sustainment operation for the United States Army.
Due to the battalion's modular design, it is also capable of gaining additional subordinate units upon deployment to a theatre of operations.
Established at Grenier Field U.S. Army Reserve Center, on Galaxy Way, on the grounds of Manchester-Boston Regional Airport (the former Grenier Air Force Base), the 167th Support Group used a nominal Manchester, New Hampshire postal address, although that portion of the airport was on the Londonderry side of the city boundary.
In 1980, the peacetime Army Reserve chain of command was overlaid with a CAPSTONE wartime trace. In an expansion of the roundout and affiliation program begun ten years earlier, CAPSTONE purported to align every Army Reserve unit with the active and reserve component units with which they were anticipated to deploy. Like other Army Reserve units, the 167th Support Group maintained lines of communication with the units – often hundreds or thousands of miles away in peacetime – who would presumably serve above or below them in the event of mobilization. This communication, in some cases, extended to coordinated annual training opportunities.
Many of the 167th's units and individual soldiers rotated through Honduras in the 1980s. Operation Fuertes Caminos ("strong roads") provided villagers with roads on which to move their crops to market, while providing invaluable real-world training and experience to reserve engineers, medical personnel, logisticians and others.
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