101st Operational Sustainment Brigade is a logistic brigade within

3rd (United Kingdom) Division The 3rd (United Kingdom) Division, also known as The Iron Division, is a regular army division of the British Army. It was created in 1809 by Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, as part of the Anglo-Portuguese Army, for service in the P ...

of the British Army, formed from the Combat Service Support Group in 1999. The brigade is held in high readiness and is described as a "vanguard support brigade".

History

In 1999, Combat Service Support Group (United Kingdom) was formed under operational command of 3rd (United Kingdom) Mechanised Division.1999 Staff Officer's Handbook, Serial 26 Under the LANDmark reorganisation from 2002, the group was redesignated as 101st Logistic Brigade and placed under

Force Troops Command Force Troops Command was a combat support and combat service support command of the British Army. Its headquarters was at Upavon, Wiltshire. It was formed in 2013 as a re-designation of the previous Headquarters Theatre Troops. Force Troops Comm ...

, but remained under operational command of the 3rd (UK) Mechanised Division still. Under the

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plan, the Brigade re-subordinated from HQ Force Troops Command to

permanently on 1 December 2014.

Future

Under the Future Soldier programme, the brigade will be redesignated as the 101st Operational Sustainment Brigade. The future role of the brigade has been described as follows: "101st Operational Sustainment Brigade will provide the 3rd Division's logistics and equipment support. It will include the Army's heavy equipment transport and powerpack repair capability; ensuring the armoured BCTs can deploy rapidly and sustain high intensity operations."

List of structures

References

{{Current British brigades 101 Military units and formations established in 1999 Logistics units and formations of the British Army Organisations based in Hampshire 1999 establishments in the United Kingdom