In 2009, the 89th RRC converted to the 89th Sustainment Brigade thus transforming to an MTOE command with a logistical sustainment mission to provide support to combat and combat support forces deployed in support of contingency and combat operations within the designated combatant commander’s area of responsibility. The long and distinguished history of the 89th Sustainment Brigade began 27 Augus
t 1917, when it was first activated as an Infantry Division at Camp Funston, Fort Riley, Kansas in support of World War I. It was deployed to France in 1918 and participated in the Lorraine Campaign, St. The Division was reactivated in 1921 as part of the Army Reserve when it expanded from a Medical Reserve Corps to the Officer Reserve Corps and Enlisted Reserve Corps. In 1942 the Division was again called to active service at Camp Carson, Colorado until 21 January 1945 when the 89th landed in France at Le Havre, for World War II. On 11 March 1945 the 89th moved up the Sauer River into jump-off position east of Echternach. On 17 March, they pushed forward through Moselle, and on 26 March crossed the Rhine between the towns of Kestert and Kaub. On 6 April, they took the town of Eisenach, and pushed forward towards their next objective Friedrichroda, core of the vaulted N**i Redoubt in Thuringia. The city was secured by 8 April, and the Division continued eastward toward the Mulde River, capturing Zwickau by the 17th of April. The advance was halted on 23 April, and from then until VE-Day the Division saw only limited action, engaging in patrolling and general security missions. Three towns, Lossnitz, Aue and Stollberg, were kept under constant pressure, but no attacks were launched during that time. In 1947, the Division was reactivated in the Army Reserve with it’s headquarters located in Wichita, Kansas. In 1959 it was re-designated the 89th Division (Training) and then in 1973 it became a United States Army Reserve Command (ARCOM). In 1995 it was again re-designated as the 89th Regional Support Command until late in 2003 when all the Regional Support Commands were re-designated as Regional Readiness Commands. The 89th Sustainment Command has continued to answer the call to duty with Soldiers serving in Desert Shield/Desert Storm, operations in Haiti, Bosnia, Kosovo, as well as small scale contingencies around the world. Today the 89th has contributed over 12,000 Solders in support of the Global War on Terror.