287th Sustainment Brigade
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The 287th Sustainment Brigade was a sustainment brigade of the Kansas Army National Guard. The Brigade was activated on 1 September 2005, and is headquartered in Wichita. Its mission was to plan, prepare, execute and assess combat service support operations within a corps or division Area of Operations. It was the largest brigade-level headquarters in the state. In 2015, it was announced that the brigade would be deactivating in FY2016.{{cite web |title=Kansas Adjutant General's Department Annual Report 2015 |url=http://www.kansastag.gov/AdvHTML_Upload/files/Annual%20Report%202015%20with%20map.pdf |page=45}} The brigade was deactivated on 1 May 2016.{{Cite news|url=http://www.kansastag.gov/press_release_detail.asp?PRid=1421|title=287th Sustainment Brigade will conduct inactivation ceremony May 1|date=28 April 2016|publisher=Kansas Adjutant General's Department Public Affairs Office|access-date=19 September 2016}}
Units included:
- HHC 287th
- 287th Special Troops Battalion
- 891st Engineer Battalion
- 169th Corps Support Sustainment Battalion (CSSB)
History
References
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- [https://web.archive.org/web/20100527231607/http://www.kansas.gov/ksadjutantgeneral/News%20Releases/2006/06-071.htm Adjutant General's Department News Article]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20070128073804/http://www.tioh.hqda.pentagon.mil/Sustain/287SustainmentBrigade.htm The Institute of Heraldry: 287th Sustainment brigade]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20110524044327/http://www.saljournal.com/rdnews/story/sendoff9-26-08]
Category:Military units and formations established in 2005
Category:Military units and formations disestablished in 2016
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