The Combat Service ID Badge (CSIB) is essentially the Army Service Uniform’s equivalent of the full-color Shoulder Sleeve Insignia (SSI, see below) worn on the phased-out Class A/B Army Green Uniform—except, of course, it is a badge instead of a patch, and unlike the SSI is also authorized for wear on the Mess/Evening Mess uniforms. Only one CSIB may be worn regardless of how many the wearer has been authorized. Consult section
22-17 of DA 670-1 for complete guidance on placement, orientation, and other wear considerations.
According to the U.S. Army Center of Military History, the “parent unit” of the Ohio Army National Guard’s 371st Sustainment Brigade is the 62nd Field Artillery Brigade, constituted on 29 August 1917. On 1 February 1942, the Brigade was redesignated as Headquarters Battery, 37th Division Artillery, and it was for service with the 37th Infantry Division that it earned a Philippine Presidential Unit Citation.
After more than a dozen years designated as the 371st Antiaircraft Artillery Group, the unit was consolidated with 103rd Antiaircraft Artillery Detachment to form the 371st Artillery Group in 1959. It was not designated as a Support unit until 1972, when it became the 371st Support Group, a designation it retained after consolidation with the 299th Signal Detachment in 1997. A decade later, the unit finally received its current designation as a Sustainment Brigade. As of 2018, it comprised two Battalions, a Special Troops Battalion and the 112th Transportation Battalion.
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