The 1190 Transportation Surface Brigade, located in Baton Rouge, La., is my current duty assignment. The unit is an Army Reserve unit administratively controlled under the Deployment Support Command to sustain the current affiliation within the Army Reserve component. Operational control remains with the Surface Deployment and Distribution Command (SDDC); the Brigade’s Active component affiliation.
The 1190 Transportation Surface Brigade’s current mission command consist of three battalions and 14 detachments. During Presidential and Congressional Call-Up, the brigade itself would assume mission command of all active component battalions aligned in the Gulfport states currently operating under SDDC. Their mission is to manage and oversee all port operations within these area vessel ports. Just one of the gulf vessel ports during Operation Enduring Freedom moved approximately 330 vessels toward the Persian Gulf in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom.
This year, the 1190 Transportation Surface Brigade has personnel deploying to various areas in the Middle East, participating in port operations in Texas and maintaining their evaluated training markers in Army Reserve exercises.