Logistic Battalion "Cadore"

Logistic Battalion "Cadore"
Battaglione Logistico "Cadore"
Battalion coat of arms
Active	1 Jan. 1976 — 31 Jan. 1997
Country	Italy
Branch	Italian Army
Type	Military logistics
Part of	Alpine Brigade "Cadore"
Garrison/HQ	Belluno
Motto(s)	"L'impegno mi esalta"
Anniversaries	22 May 1916 - Battle of Asiago
Insignia
Unit gorget patches

The Logistic Battalion "Cadore" (Italian: Battaglione Logistico "Cadore") is an inactive military logistics battalion of the Italian Army, which was assigned to the Alpine Brigade "Cadore". As an alpine unit the battalion is associated with the army's mountain infantry speciality, the Alpini, with whom the battalion shares the distinctive Cappello Alpino.^[1] The battalion's anniversary falls, as for all units of the Italian Army's Transport and Materiel Corps, on 22 May, the anniversary of the Royal Italian Army's first major use of automobiles to transport reinforcements to the Asiago plateau to counter the Austro-Hungarian Asiago Offensive in May 1916.^[2]

The battalion is the spiritual successor of the logistic units of the Alpine Brigade "Cadore", which was formed on 1 July 1953 in Belluno. On 10 October 1956, the logistic units of the brigade were assigned to the newly formed Service Units Command "Cadore". The command consisted of a medical section, a provisions section, a mobile vehicle park, a mobile workshop, and an auto unit. On 1 November 1961, the mobile vehicle park and mobile workshop merged to form the Resupply, Repairs, Recovery Unit "Cadore".^[1]

On 1 January 1967, the Service Units Command "Cadore" was reorganized as Services Grouping Command "Cadore", which consisted of a command, the Auto Unit "Cadore", a provisions company, the Resupply, Repairs, Recovery Unit "Cadore", and a medical section. On 1 February 1968, the command received the 103rd Field Hospital, which on 1 August 1973, was assigned, together with the command's medical section, to the newly formed Medical Battalion "Cadore".^[1]

On 1 January 1976, as part of the 1975 army reform, the Services Grouping Command "Cadore" was reorganized as Logistic Battalion "Cadore". Initially the battalion consisted of a command, a command and services platoon, two light logistic units, a medium logistic unit, and two reserve medical units. At the time the battalion fielded 712 men (42 officers, 92 non-commissioned officers, and 588 soldiers).^[3] On 12 November 1976, the President of the Italian Republic Giovanni Leone granted with decree 846 the battalion a flag.^[1][4]

On 1 January 1981, the two medical units merged into a single reserve medical unit. On 1 January 1982, the battalion was reorganized and consisted afterwards of the following units:^[1]

On 10 January 1997, the Alpine Brigade "Cadore" was disbanded, followed on 31 January 1997 by the Logistic Battalion "Cadore". On 26 February of the same year, the battalion's flag was transferred to the Shrine of the Flags in the Vittoriano in Rome for safekeeping.^[1]

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