Logistic Battalion "Brescia"

[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 Royal Italian Army's 27th Infantry Division "Sila", which fought in the Second Italo-Ethiopian War and was renamed on 24 May 1939 27th Infantry Division "Brescia".

Already on 1 October of the same year, the Logistic Battalion "Brescia" had been formed in Montorio Veronese for the new brigade.

[3] On 12 November 1976, the President of the Italian Republic Giovanni Leone granted with decree 846 the battalion a flag.

[1][4] In 1981, the battalion was reorganized and consisted afterwards of the following units:[1] After the end of the Cold War the Italian Army began to draw down its forces.