A major subordinate command (MSC) of the Mississippi Army National Guard, the 184th Sustainment Command’s Headquarters and Headquarters Company are based at Laurel Armory in Laurel, Mississippi. As an MSC, it is responsible for the oversight of the training and administrative needs of over 2500 personnel in the Mississippi ARNG. Units subordinate to the 184th Sustainment Command include the 168th Engineer Brigade and its two Battalions (the 223d and the 890th), the 298th Support Battalion (subordinate units include the 367th and 3656th Maintenance Companies), 1387th Quartermaster Company, 1687th Transportation Company, 31st Support Detachment (Rear Operations), and the 114th Digital Liaison Detachment.
The unit was originally formed as an Infantry Company in the 1st Infantry Regiment of the Mississippi National Guard, and over the next five decades it underwent numerous redesignations, almost always as Infantry. In 1965, it was converted and redesignated as the HQ and HQ Company, 184th Transportation Command, and in 1972 it was redesignated as a Transportation Brigade. It wasn’t until 2006 that the unit was converted and redesignated as the 184th Support Command and then a Sustainment Command five years later.
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The Command’s period of service as Transportation unit is celebrated in the 184th Sustainment Distinctive Unit Insignia (DUI), also called a unit crest. Below the unit motto of “Ever There” is the crest’s focal point, a wheel over which a magnolia has been superimposed. The wheel evokes the unit’s primary mission of Transportation at the time the insignia was improved, while the magnolia recalls the unit’s home state of Mississippi (it is the state flower).
Distinctive Unit Insignias are worn by all Soldiers (except General Officers) in units that have been
authorized to be issued the device. It is worn centered on the shoulder loops of the Army Green Service Uniform (AGSU) and the blue Army Service Uniform (ASU, Enlisted only) with the base of the insignia toward the outside shoulder seam. Current regulations do not permit the DUI to be worn on the Dress variations of either uniform, however.
Enlisted personnel wear the insignia centered on a shoulder loop by placing it an equal distance from the outside shoulder seam to the outside edge of the shoulder-loop button. Officers (except Generals) wearing grade insignia on the shoulder loops center the DUI by placing it an equal distance between the inside edge of the grade insignia and the outside edge of the button.
More guidance on wear of the DUI is found in DA Pamphlet 670-1,
Section 21-22, "Distinctive unit insignia" and 21–3(d) and (e),
"Beret" and
"Garrison Cap," respectively.
Related Items
184th Sustainment Command Unit Patch (SSI)
184th Sustainment Command Combat Service ID Badge (CSIB)