Organized in 1911 as an Infantry Company in the 4th Infantry Regiment of the Alabama National Guard, the 135th Sustainment Command (Expeditionary) was not converted and redesignated for another branch of Army service until 1972, when it became the 1167th Stock Control Company; just four years later it was the 167th Materiel Management Center. It eventually received its current designation as a Sustainment Command in 2007 and its location switched to Birmingham in 2009. Since then, it has been called to active Federal service twice and is now under state control at Fort McClellan, Alabama.
As Infantry Company K, 167th Infantry, it earned credit for taking part in five Campaigns—Champagne-Marne, Aisne-Marne, Meuse-Argonne, St. Mihiel, and Lorraine 1918—between August 1917 and November 1918. In World War II, it again served in the 16th and garnered three Campaign streamers, and since the attacks of 9/11 it has earned credit for the Global War on Terrorism Campaign and the Consolidation III phase of the Afghanistan Campaign.
The 135th Sustainment Command is one of just two Expeditionary Sustainment Commands in the National Guard. It has two subordinate units, the 1200th and the 731st Combat Sustainment Support Battalions, stationed at Ashland and Tallahassee respectively.
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