85th U.S. Army Field Artillery Detachment

59th Ordnance Brigade
59th Ordnance Brigade shoulder sleeve insignia
Active	1955–1992 1994 – present
Country	USA
Branch	U.S. Army
Garrison/HQ	Fort Lee, VA
Website	goordance
Commanders
Current commander	COL Thomas Rivard
Insignia
Distinctive Unit Insignia

The 59th Ordnance Brigade is a military unit of the United States Army. The unit is currently stood up as the U.S. Army Ordnance School's training brigade. In its previous iteration, the brigade had more than 6,500 soldiers. It was responsible for storage, delivering, maintaining, Nuclear and Chemical Control Orders, and supervising the weapons of mass destruction ("special ammo" of Nuclear and Chemical Munitions) for U.S. Forces and Forces of the Allied NATO-Countries, except France.

Units:

The 71st Ordnance Battalion was activated in Germany in 1955. 1959 it was formed into the Advanced Weapons Support Command AWSCOM. On 24 March 1962 it was renamed into Special Ammunition Support Command SASCOM.

In October 1972 the SASCOM name was changed to Special Ammunition Support Brigade. The Special Ammunition Support Brigade changed to the 59th Ordnance Brigade for Operational Security reasons as Special Ammunition indicated Nuclear Munitions and or Chemical Munitions as High Priority Targets for the "Cold War" U.S.S.R.

In June 1992 the 59th Ordnance Brigade was deactivated after it had removed all U.S. Army Nuclear (SALT, START, Intermediate Range Nuclear Forces (INF)Treaty) and Chemical Weapons (Operation Steel Box and Operation Golden Python) from Europe including Italy, Greece and Turkey as SETAF (Southern European Task Force).

It was reactivated in Redstone Arsenal, Alabama, 1994.

The Brigade was reassigned to Fort Lee, VA in 2011.

In June 1976 the Brigade's units were situated at many locations in Western Germany and The Netherlands:

The 41st Ordnance Company was organized in May 1936 as Company C, 1st Battalion, 32nd Quartermaster Regiment. It was redesignated as Company C, 70th Quartermaster Battalion in June 1940 and moved to Camp Gordon, Georgia in May 1942. The company was converted and redesignated as the 3419th Ordnance Medium Maintenance Company in August 1942. The company was reorganized as the 3419th Ordnance Medium Automotive Maintenance Company in January 1943 and deployed to Europe participating in four campaigns during War World II. It was reorganized and redesignated as the 41st Ordnance Medium Automotive Maintenance Company in June 1947 and inactivated in Germany in September 1947.

The company was activated in Japan in March 1950 and deployed to Korea where it participated in one campaign. The unit was inactivated in Japan in November 1951.