841st Bn supports historic Army exercise, helps V Corps reach major milestone

By Julie A KelemenNovember 24, 2021

Cargo arrives at port, V Corps declared fully operational
1 / 4 Show Caption + Hide Caption – Military equipment is offloaded in a staging area at a strategic military port operated by the 841st Transportation at Joint Base Charleston, S.C. Nov. 24. (Photo Credit: U.S. Army Photo by Staff Sgt.Alexis Restivo, Deployment and Distribution Support Team NCOIC) VIEW ORIGINAL
V Corps cargo arrives at JB Charleston, marking major milestone
2 / 4 Show Caption + Hide Caption – Military equipment is offloaded in a staging area at a strategic military port operated by the 841st Transportation at Joint Base Charleston, S.C. Nov. 24. (Photo Credit: U.S. Army Photo by Staff Sgt.Alexis Restivo, Deployment and Distribution Support Team NCOIC) VIEW ORIGINAL
Military port operations continue despite backlogs
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Military ports continue to support deployments, unaffected by commercial backlogs
4 / 4 Show Caption + Hide Caption – Sgt. Jackson, a transportation specialist assigned to the 841st Transportation Battalion, orders commercial trucks to transport V Corps cargo from Joint Base Charleston, S.C., to Fort Knox, Ky. Nov. 24.

Jackson is a U.S. Army reservist on a year-long assignment to a unit responsible for port operations at all of the military's strategic military seaports on the East Coast. (Photo Credit: U.S. Army Photo by Staff Sgt. Alexis Restivo, Deployment and Distribution Support Team NCOIC) VIEW ORIGINAL

The 841st Transportation Bn. conducted vessel offloading operations in support of the V Corps first rotation to Europe at Joint Base Charleston, S.C., Nov. 24.

The V Corps, also known as the “Victory” Corps and the Fifth Corps, was activated less than 12 months ago at Fort Knox, Ky. and is now the U.S. Army’s fourth corps headquarters.

The successful redeployment was a historical milestone because it demonstrated that the unit is fully operationally capable again, according to Gen. Michael X. Garrett, commanding general, U.S. Army Forces Command.

Now that the unit is operational, Soldiers assigned to the V Corps will regularly begin to rotate from Kentucky to a forward headquarters in Poznan, Poland.

V Corps was activated in 1918 during World War I and was de-activated in 2013. The corps took part in the D-Day invasion and liberation of Europe during World War II.

The Army's other operational corps are I Corps (America’s Corps) at Joint Base Lewis- McChord, Wash.; III Corps (Phantom Corps) at Fort Hood, Texas; and XVIII Airborne Corps (Sky Dragons) at Fort Bragg, N.C.

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