The 210th Para-Commando Logistic Company

Organisation

To carry out its missions the 210th Para-Commando Logistic Company consists of  five platoons:

• a staff platoon enables the commander to command and control the company. The platoon is responsible for the management of the personnel and the equipment belonging to the company
• a supply and transportation platoon carries out supply (food, clothing, and equipment, fuel and ammunition), and transportation missions
• an equipment supply platoon is charged with ensuring the supply of spare parts to the different brigade units.
• a maintenance platoon has to carry out maintenance of all non rolling stocks (radio's, optical instruments, optronics, armament, etc)
• a vehicle maintenance platoon carries out the maintenance of all vehicles belonging to the brigade

The technical bureau is not a platoon, but rather a section, that carries out the planning, coordination and the control of all maintenance and supply activities.

Equipment

The  210th Para-Commando Logistic Company is equipped with:

66 MAN 4 t trucks 5 MAN 4 t SEAL DRUM trucks 9 VOLVO 10 t trucks 2 trucks VOLVO AMPLIROL 6 trucks VOLVO MANUMAT 2 fork lifts CLIMAX

Missions

 

The main mission for the 210th Para-Commando Logistic Company is to:

• provide logistic support for the units belonging to the Para-Commando Brigade
• keep all the vehicles of the Para-Commando Brigade in running order
• be able to support a Para-Commando detachment engaged in an evacuation mission in Africa, and at the same time support a Para-Commando Battalion carrying out a mission as part of the Allied Command Europe Mobile Force's immediate reaction force

In short, the mission assigned to the Company consists of providing direct logistic support to the units belonging to the Para-Commando Brigade, in peacetime, as well as in wartime.

History

As part of the general restructuring of logistic units, the 210th Logistic Company is created on 1 July 1983 at Arolsen. The 210th Logistic Company is formed by fusing two existing units, the 202th Material Company and the 107th Supply&Maintenance Platoon both stationed at Arolsen, with the 210th Maintenance Company stationed at Aachen. The newly created 210th Logistic Company is part of the 18th Logistic Battalion , the staff of which is stationed at Lüdenscheid. In a wartime scenario, the 210th Logistic Company is to provide logistical support to the units of the Reconnaissance Group.
After the disappearance of the iron curtain, and following the reorganisation of the Armed Forces, it is decided in November1991 to transform the Para-Commando Regiment into a full- fledged brigade. Furthermore the Reconnaissance Group is disbanded. To be able to provide logistic support for the Para-Commando units, the brigade as an  autonomous formation, needs a logistical unit. In view of the wide experience gained by 210th Logistic Company, it is appointed the logistical unit of the Para-Commando Brigade.

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