Marching on Home

By Lucille Anne NewmanNovember 30, 2007

Marching on Home
1 / 2 Show Caption + Hide Caption – Capt. Tim Stansberry, Headquarters and Headquarters Company 264th Combat Sustainment Support Battalion, kiss­es his five- year- old son, Caleb, on the forehead while his wife, Leah, looks on. Stansberry and the rest of the 264th returned home from an... (Photo Credit: U.S. Army) VIEW ORIGINAL
Marching on home
2 / 2 Show Caption + Hide Caption – Lt. Col. Jason Vick, left of the flag, 264th Combat Sustainment Support Battalion commander, leads his Soldiers in a march towards Green Ramp Nov. 20 to reunite them with their Families and end their 18-month deployment to Afghanistan. The unit's mis... (Photo Credit: U.S. Army) VIEW ORIGINAL

Tired and ready to go home, Soldiers of the 264th Combat Sustainment Support Battalion marched towards Green Ramp, peering around their comrades trying to catch a glimpse of their Families in the hangar cheering for them.

The mission of the 264th CSSB is to provide continuous sustainment supA,Aport in Multi-National Force - West in order to set the conditions for longA,Aterm sustainment architecture in the sector and to facilitate the establishA,Ament of an independent Iraqi security force logistics structure.

Their tasks varied from mission to mission, but in the end, the condiA,Ations they set led to their success for a self- sustaining ISF logistics strucA,Ature, responsive Sustainment supA,Aport to all coalition forces in their sector. Because all Soldiers in the unit understood their tasks and purA,Apose, they were able to successfully executed their missions - especialA,Aly their final task of redeploying personnel and equipment safely.