327th Signal Battalion (United States)

The 327th Signal Battalion (Airborne) provided worldwide rapidly deployable signal support for the Joint Task Force Headquarters, XVIII Airborne Corp and designated Major Subordinate Commands in times of peace and war. The unit was officially activated on June 30, 1952. It was deactivated in April of 2007.

Here is an abbreviated history of the 327th Signal Battalion as gathered from various sources: The unit was constituted on 26 May 1952 in the Organized Reserve Corps as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 327th Signal Support Battalion

It was officially activated 30 June 1952 at Tampa, Florida

(Organized Reserve Corps redesignated 9 July 1952 as the Army Reserve)

The unit was reorganized and redesignated 15 September 1953 as Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment, 327th Signal Battalion

Inactivated 7 July 1959 at Tampa, Florida

Withdrawn 18 April 1967 from the Army Reserve and allotted to the Regular Army

Activated 1 August 1967 at Fort Bragg, North Carolina

Reorganized and redesignated 16 September 1980 as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 327th Signal Battalion; concurrently, the 416th Signal Company (see ANNEX 1) and the 221st Signal Company (see ANNEX 2)

reorganized and redesignated, respectively, as Company A and Company B, 327th Signal Battalion

Constituted 29 August 1940 in the Regular Army as the 316th Signal Aviation Company

Activated 20 September 1940 at Mitchel Field, New York

Redesignated 5 March 1941 as the 316th Signal Company, Air Wing

Redesignated 24 October 1941 as the 416th Signal Company, Aviation

Inactivated 16 October 1945 in Italy

Redesignated 15 December 1954 as the 416th Signal Aviation Company

Activated 7 February 1955 at Fort Huachuca, Arizona

Reorganized and redesignated 26 May 1961 as the 416th Signal Company

Inactivated 2 February 1963 at Fort Huachuca, Arizona

Activated 18 August 1965 at Fort Lee, Virginia

Constituted 3 November 1941 in the Regular Army as the 221st Signal Depot Company

Activated 14 August 1943 at Fort Monmouth, New Jersey

Inactivated 20 June 1948 in Germany

Redesignated 8 January 1952 as the 221st Signal Base Depot Company

Activated 22 January 1952 at Atlanta, Georgia

Reorganized and redesignated 4 October 1954 as the 221st Signal Company

Inactivated 1 September 1965 at Sacramento, California

Activated 1 June 1966 at Fort Monmouth, New Jersey

Inactivated 1 July 1974 at Schofield Barracks, Hawaii

Activated 16 September 1979 at Fort Bragg, North Carolina