7th Sustainment Brigade The 7th Sustainment Brigade is a sustainment brigade of the United States Army . It is known and referred to as " the most deployed unit in the Army " because of its continuous mission to provide logistical support to all branches of the service for both training and war - time activities . History . The 7th Transportation Group was the " Army ' s Navy . " The 7th Transportation Group was the only Composite Transportation Group within the Active Component of the U . S . Army . The 7th Transportation Group has served around the world in time of conflict since its activation in 1942 . The 7th Transportation Group executes such missions like the annual Joint Logistics - Over - the - Shore [ JLOTS ] operations . The 7th Transportation Group ' s mission is to " conduct multi - modal transportation operations in support of the reception , staging , and onward movement of joint and / or combined forces into a theater of operations " and the pictures on this slide highlight the diversity of that mission . While the focus is normally on the group ' s ability to operate common - user seaports , coastal and inland waterway MSRs , theater rail terminals and local and line haul truck transportation , the group ' s capabilities extend far beyond these functions . Watercraft are just one tool the 7th Group uses in its multi modal mission to support reception , staging and onward movement . The group is structured with one Motor Transport Battalion and 3 Terminal Battalions . All four battalions are composite and multi - functional . In total , the group has a current strength of just over 4000 soldiers and operates 59 vessels and in excess of 1100 ground vehicles . Almost a quarter of these vehicles are material handling equipment . The unit supports all branches of the service by moving troops , equipment , and supplies . It also performs humanitarian missions . To do this , the 7th Transportation Group operates ports , rail terminals , and coastal and inland watch ways all over the world . Operation Uphold Democracy Haiti / Retrograde is an example of a recent deployment of 7th Transportation Group personnel . During World War II , the 7th Transportation Group commanded ports in both the United Kingdom and Japan . During the Korean War , the 7th Group was redesignated as the 7th Medium Port and was responsible for all port operations in Pusan , Korea , in support of UN Forces . During the Vietnam War , the command provided a training base for the deployment of all watercraft and terminal service units deployed to the Republic of Vietnam . During the Grenada evacuation operation , elements of the group deployed on two separate occasions to discharge and load cargo by sea and air . The command was called upon again during Operation Just Cause in Panama , where it deployed to provide airfield and control group support and functional services . During the period of 1990 and 1991 , the 7th Transportation Group played a key role in the success of Operations Desert Shield , Storm and Farewell . Within days of the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait , elements of the group began pouring into the Saudi desert . After the 82d Airborne Division , transporters from the 7th Transportation Group , Fort Eustis , Virginia were the next soldiers to deploy to the Middle East , readying the ports , air terminals and lines of communication for the rest of the U . S . military . Once the troops were in place , the 22d Support Command had to provide materiel and stores to the forward units . Until the arrival of the 32d Transportation Group in January , the 7th Transportation Group served as the Support Command ' s long - distance trucker as well as manager of the ports . Opening the first seaports and airfields , the command grew to 9 , 200 soldiers . Little more than a year after the return from Saudi Arabia , the group became involved in the deployment of over 1 , 100 soldiers in support of Operation Restore Hope in December 1992 . The last rotation of soldiers departed the Port of Mogadishu in April 1994 after the United Nations assumed command of the humanitarian operation . Four months later , the group was again involved in another humanitarian mission in Mombasa , Kenya , providing relief support to Rwanda during Operation Support Hope . In September 1994 , at the onset of Operation Uphold Democracy , the group deployed over 1 , 500 soldiers to Haiti , providing transportation support to U . S . and allied forces . During October 1994 , the group deployed over 580 soldiers to southwest Asia in support of Operation Vigilant Warrior . Craney Island was one of several strategic landmarks in the 7th Transportation Group exercise called " Resolute Shamrock ' 95 . " The battalion - sized training event involved about 500 soldiers , collectively , from the group ' s four battalions . They included the 6th , 10th and 24th Trans . battalions from Fort Eustis , and the 11th Trans Bn . from Fort Story , Virginia , whose 309th Transportation Company is the only active - duty unit in the Army that operates the LARCs , the Army ' s only amphibious vehicles . About 100 soldiers from the U . S . Army Transportation School at Fort Eustis also participated in the exercise . Resolute Shamrock began 6 March , when the 24th Transportation Battalion was alerted to a simulated crisis situation . Within 24 hours , it had set up a processing center at Fort Eustis , where soldiers received shots and updated wills . About 300 of them underwent DNA testing , the results of which remain in their personnel files for identification purposes . Simultaneously , soldiers from the Causeway Company began reconfiguring one of the causeway piers that had been towed by tugboat from Fort Eustis to Craney Island . Back at Fort Eustis , 24th Transportation Battalion soldiers began moving a token number of their vehicles and equipment to Lambert ' s Point in Norfolk , Virginia . There other 7th Group soldiers and U . S . Army Transportation School students uploaded the materials , via another causeway pier , onto a fast sealift ship . LCU - 2000s ( landing craft , utility ) and mike boats then transported the vehicles and equipment from the FSS to Craney Island . Later in the exercise , during operations at a secondary port at the Little Creek Naval Amphibious Base at Virginia Beach , the smaller craft came alongside a second LSV to offload cargo . 7th Group soldiers deployed to Hungary and Bosnia in December 1995 to support the NATO Implementation Force and continue to support this operation . From January through April 1996 , 7th Group soldiers spearheaded the retrograde of U . S . Forces from Haiti . Since then the Group continues to operate around the world . In 1997 , Group soldiers participated in exercises and operations in 17 countries . Group soldiers deployed to Kuwait in support of Operation Desert Thunder . The Defense Department was in charge of ground transportation for NATO ' s 50th anniversary summit in Washington DC , 23 to 25 April 1999 . The District of Columbia National Guard Armory served as operations center for about 600 vehicles and 500 personnel , mainly soldiers from 6th Battalion , 7th Transportation Command , Fort Eustis , Virginia . A planning team from 7th Transportation Group was working with these units since first of the year . The Army and Navy conducted a joint logistics over - the - shore ( JLOTS ) operation at Camp Pendleton Marine Corps Base , California , as part of Exercise Turbo Patriot in September 2000 . The 143rd Transportation Command , an Army Reserve headquarters from Orlando , Florida , oversaw the exercise . The 7th Transportation Group ( Composite ) from Fort Eustis , Virginia , the Navy ' s Amphibious Group Three from San Diego , and the Military Sealift Command provided forces , ships , and equipment . Equipment belonging to the 25th Infantry Division ( Light ) from Schofield Barracks , Hawaii , was loaded aboard the USNS Seay , a large , medium speed , roll - on - roll - off ( LMSR ) ship , at Pearl Harbor , Hawaii , and sailed to the California coast . There the equipment was downloaded in the open ocean and moved to a bare beach by Army and Navy lighters . Distinctive Unit Insignia . The Distinctive Unit Insignia was approved on 21 September 1971 , consisting of a gold demi - sun with eleven gold bevelled rays , surmounted in base by a gold ship ' s steering wheel of eight spokes with brick red rim , bearing at the hub a Korean Taeguk ( scarlet at the top and blue at base ) , the areas in the lower half of the wheel between the spokes pierced , all above a semicircular blue enamel scroll with ends folded over the horizontal handles of the steering wheel and inscribed , " RESOLUTE " in gold letters . The eleven sun rays refer to the unit ' s service in Europe , World War II , and its participation in ten campaigns in the Korean War . The Taeguk alludes to the organization ' s two Meritorious Unit Commendations , Korea and the two Republic of Korea Presidential Unit Citation awards . The ship ' s steering wheel and the blue scroll allude to the organization ' s mission to command units employed in the operation of water terminals . Brick red and golden ( gold ) yellow are colors used for the Transportation Corps . Shoulder Sleeve Insignia . The shoulder sleeve insignia was originally approved for the 7th Transportation Command on 3 Apr 1967 . As an exception to policy , on 1 Mar 1984 the insignia was authorized for wear by personnel of the 7th Transportation Group . It consists of a brick red shield within a golden yellow border , issuing from the center point throughout seven golden yellow rays surmounted by a blue chess - rook . The rays issuing from the center of the shield refer to the receiving and dispersal of personnel and cargo . The rays are seven in number in reference to the numerical designation of the organizations . The " rook " is the chess piece for a castle , medieval stronghold of fighting men and supplies . The name is derived from the Persian word " rokh " , meaning a soldier , and is used to represent the military troops and equipment being transferred from one mode of transportation to another at the organization . Blue , the Infantry color , refers to the organization ' s capability of defending itself as Infantry against hostile ground attack . Brick red and golden yellow are for the Transportation Corps . On 18 October 2006 , the 7th Transportation Group was officially de - activated and the 7th Sustainment Brigade was activated . On 6 October 2007 , the 7th Sustainment Brigade , now under the control of the 10th Mountain Division ( Light Infantry ) , departed for their first rotation as a Sustainment Brigade to Iraq in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom . The brigade redeployed back to Fort Eustis on 24 December 2008 after nearly 15 months in Iraq .