[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.

[3] The battalion is the spiritual successor of the logistic units of the 1st Alpine Division "Taurinense", which had fought in the Italian invasion of France and the Italian occupation of Yugoslavia of World War II, and of the logistic units of the Alpine Brigade "Taurinense", which was formed on 15 April 1952 in Turin.

The battalion was meant to support the Tactical Group "Susa", which was Italy's contribution to NATO's Allied Command Europe Mobile Force-Land AMF(L), which, in case of war with the Warsaw Pact, would have reinforced NATO's Allied Forces North Norway Command in Northern Norway.

[1] On 1 June 1978, the 101st Field Hospital was reorganized as Airmobile Medical Unit "Taurinense".

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