page_title: Logistic Regiment "Julia"
section_title: Logistic Battalion "Orobica"
hierarchical_section_title: Logistic Regiment "Julia" / History / Logistic Battalion "Orobica"
caption_attribution_description: English: Coat of Arms of the Orobica Logistic Battalion; Italian Army.
context_page_description: The Logistic Regiment "Julia" is a military logistics regiment of the Italian Army based in Merano in South Tyrol. Today the regiment is the logistic unit of the Alpine Brigade "Julia" and shares with the brigade's infantry troops, the Alpini, the distinctive Cappello Alpino.
context_section_description: On 27 July 1991 the battalion moved from Eppan to Merano, where it absorbed part of the disbanded Logistic Battalion "Orobica" of the Alpine Brigade "Orobica". The Logistic Battalion "Orobica" had been formed on 1 October 1956 as Services Unit "Orobica" in Merano and repeatedly changed composition and name until the 1975 army reform, when it became the Logistic Battalion "Orobica" and was granted a new war flag on 12 November 1976 by decree 846 of the President of the Italian Republic Giovanni Leone. 
  Initially consisting of a command platoon, two light logistic units, a medium logistic unit, and two medical units the battalion was reorganized on 1 November 1981 and consisted from then until being disbanded of the following units:
   Battalion Command, in Merano
  Command and Services Company
  Supply Company
  Medium Transport Company
  Maintenance Company
  Medical (Reserve) Unit
  Afterwards the war flag of the Logistic Battalion "Orobica" was transferred to the Shrine of the Flags in the Vittoriano in Rome.
caption: Logistic Battalion "Orobica" coat of arms
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