Established in the Regular Army on 16 March 1992 with its headquarters at Pulaski Barracks, the 415th Base Support Battalion was assigned to the 29th Area Support Group, a component of the 21st Theater Army Area Command in Kaiserslautern, Germany. During its time there, it was manned by a skeletal staff that had “grown” to a total of seven a half-year after it was created.
But in October 1993, the 415th Base Support Battalion was reassigned to the 26th Area Support Group in Heidelberg, Germany, and with this move, the Battalion became a fully operational Base Support Battalion, assigned five dozen Soldiers and Officers and employing almost six hundred civilians.
As a result of a decision to overhaul its Support system in Germany, the Army began reflagging units in the Installation Management Agency—Area Support Groups, Base Support Battalions, and Aera Support Teams—as U.S. Army Garrisons, bringing them in alignment with U.S. Army management structured employed elsewhere around the world called the Standard Garrison Organizations. In 2005, the 415th Base Support Battalion was inactivated and reflagged as U.S. Army Garrison Kaiserslautern. In 2013, the Garrison was inactivated its components folded in to U.S. Army Garrison Rheinland-Pfalz.
♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦
Also known as a unit crest or DUI, a Distinctive Unit Insignia is 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.
“Dedication To Support," the unit motto, is inscribed at the base of the 415th Support Battalion Distinctive Unit Insignia. In the insignia’s center is a fish taken from the coat of arms of Kaiserslautern.