On the move: Rhine River Detachment.A Dec. 14 ribbon cutting ceremony A ribbon cutting ceremony is a public ceremony conducted to inaugurate the opening to the general public of a new building or business. Often, it is conducted in just the manner the name suggests: by tying a ceremonial ribbon across the main entrance of the building, which by Capt. Milton A. Montenegro, commander 838th U.S. Army Transportation Battalion's Rhine River Rhine River German Rhein River, western Europe. Rising in the Swiss Alps, it flows north and west through western Germany to drain through the delta region of The Netherlands into the North Sea. It is 820 mi (1,319 km) long and navigable for 540 mi (870 km). Detachment sealed the move of personnel and offices of the Rhine River Detachment to Coleman Barracks bar·rack 1 tr.v. bar·racked, bar·rack·ing, bar·racks To house (soldiers, for example) in quarters. n. 1. A building or group of buildings used to house military personnel. , Germany. The move came as a result of the restructuring of U.S. Forces, requiring military and civilian employees of the RRD RRD R.R. Donnelley RRD Round Robin Database (a system to store and display time-series data) RRD Removable Rigid Disk RRD Rhegmatogenous Retinal Detachment RRD Radio Regulatory Department RRD Regimental Reconnaissance Detachment to move from downtown Mannheim. The move meets security requirements for U.S. forces in Europe. Detachment personnel support deploying and redeploying U.S. military equipment by arranging transportation through the German barge system. The unit's central location, near U.S. Forces and the River Rhine, makes barge movement an efficient mode of transportation between Mannheim and the seaports of Antwerp, Belgium, and Rotterdam, the Netherlands. "The move of personnel and offices at this time of the year was especially challenging due to special network requirements and because of ongoing operations to support the war fighters within the Mannheim community," Montenegro said. The detachment was activated in 1957 under the Bremerhaven Transportation Battalion to support U.S. Forces in the central European theater of operations The European Theater of Operations, or ETO, is the term used in the United States to refer to US operations north of Italy and the Mediterranean coast, in the European Theatre of World War II. . On July 1, 1976, the Detachment was transferred to the Military Traffic Management Command A major command of the US Army, and the US Transportation Command's component command responsible for designated continental United States land transportation as well as common-user water terminal and traffic management service to deploy, employ, sustain, and redeploy US forces on a , which changed its name to Military Surface Deployment and Distribution Command on Jan. 1, 2004. Coleman Barracks, formerly Fliegerhorst (flyer's nest) Kaserne, was built in 1938 as an airfield for the German air force operating fighters and bombers. At the beginning of the war, the (Luftwaffe) fighter squadron "Pike-As," commanded by General Hans Moelder, was stationed here. Moelder was one of Germany's top air aces who shot down more than 300 planes, mostly Russian. The naming of Coleman Barracks is exceptional because it is the only Barracks in the Heidelberg area other than Patton to be named after an officer. Its name commemorates Lieutenant Colonel Wilson D. Coleman, who was posthumously awarded the Distinguished Service Cross for single-handedly halting an enemy column. Bram de Jong SDDC SDDC Surface Deployment and Distribution Command (formerly Military Traffic Management Command) SDDC Single Data Device Correction 598th Transportation Group |
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