167th Support Battalion ( United States ) The 167th Support Battalion is a support battalion of the United States Army Reserve based at Londonderry , New Hampshire , assigned to the 94th Regional Readiness Command . Activated in 1971 as the 167th Support Group ( Corps ) , it was reorganised as a battalion in 2006 . The 167th is a logistical support battalion capable of a variety of actions , capable of independent operations and taking on subordinate units to fulfill a larger scale sustainment operation for the United States Army . Organization . Due to the battalion ' s modular design , it is also capable of gaining additional subordinate units upon deployment to a theatre of operations . History . Established at Grenier Field U . S . Army Reserve Center , on Galaxy Way , on the grounds of Manchester - Boston Regional Airport ( the former Grenier Air Force Base ) , the 167th Support Group used a nominal Manchester , New Hampshire postal address , although that portion of the airport was on the Londonderry side of the city boundary . In 1980 , the peacetime Army Reserve chain of command was overlaid with a CAPSTONE wartime trace . In an expansion of the roundout and affiliation program begun ten years earlier , CAPSTONE purported to align every Army Reserve unit with the active and reserve component units with which they were anticipated to deploy . Like other Army Reserve units , the 167th Support Group maintained lines of communication with the units – often hundreds or thousands of miles away in peacetime – who would presumably serve above or below them in the event of mobilisation . This communication , in some cases , extended to coordinated annual training opportunities . Many of the 167th ' s units and individual soldiers rotated through Honduras in the 1980s . Operation Fuertes Caminos ( " strong roads " ) provided villagers with roads on which to move their crops to market , while providing invaluable real - world training and experience to reserve engineers , medical personnel , logisticians and others . Operation Nordic Shield was held in the summer of 1987 . Units of the 94th Army Reserve Command ; principally the 167th Support Group , the 187th Infantry Brigade ( Separate ) , and their subordinate battalion s and companies ; deployed to Canadian Forces Base Gagetown in southern New Brunswick , to simulate the defense of Iceland against Warsaw Pact forces , the CAPSTONE mission of both the 187th and 167th . Units under the 167th participated in a series of mobilisation exercises in the 1980s , including the Selected Reserve Call - Up ( 23 – 25 October 1987 ) , Golden Thrust ' 88 ( November 1988 ) , and Proud Eagle 90 ( 12 October through 2 November 1989 ) . Each of these was designed to evaluate not only the units ' ability to prepare to mobilise , but to examine the mobilisation processes , systems , and logistical coordination so as to find and correct the unanticipated flaws . In 1990 – 1991 , many of the soldiers from the 167th Support Group ' s units were called to active duty and served both domestically and overseas in support of Operation Desert Shield and Desert Storm . Despite the commonly held belief that CAPSTONE traces were set in stone , the process of selecting units to mobilise and deploy largely ignored CAPSTONE . Operation Nordic Shield II was held in the summer of 1992 . As they did five years before , the 167th Support Group , 187th Infantry Brigade and other units of the 94th ARCOM deployed to Canadian Forces Base Gagetown in southern New Brunswick , to simulate the defense of Iceland against Warsaw Pact forces , the CAPSTONE mission of both the 187th and 167th . Part of the 1992 exercise included lanes training as part of the United States Army Forces Command ' s " Bold Shift " initiative to reinforce unit war - fighting task proficiency . In the 1990s , the airport ' s expansion necessitated a land - swap between the airport authority and the federal government , resulting in a new Army Reserve Center being built on the south edge of the airport ' s periphery . Since relocating , the 167th and its co - located units use a Londonderry postal address . The 167th Support Group deployed soldiers to Honduras and Guatemala in 1999 in support of Operation New Horizon . Global War on Terror . In 2003 , the 167th Corps Support Group was mobilized in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom and deployed to the Persian Gulf in February 2004 . In March 2004 , the 167th deployed into Iraq , to FOB Speicher . In 2006 , the group was reorganised as a battalion .