The reserves at Kemble · Army Reserve and Marine Corps Reserve

The federal reserve presence

The Kemble Avenue center is a shared federal house, and its tenants have their own South Bend history: The state-compiled listing of Indiana reserve units as of 2001 carries, for South Bend, an Army Reserve community of the quartermaster and transportation corps — the 199th Quartermaster Company, the 428th Military Police Company, headquarters of the 766th Truck Battalion, the 855th Quartermaster Company, the 970th Transportation Detachment and Base Maintenance Activity 133 — printed here at that listing's date and size; the Army Reserve's present South Bend tenant list is not published in the sources used here, and is named as a gap rather than guessed. The Marine Corps Reserve line is better documented, and older than the building: the United States Naval and Marine Corps Training Center displaced by the Sample Street Bridge in 1963, above, is its first certain appearance in this record.

The state listing of 2001 carries Engineer Company B and a detachment of the Engineer Support Company, 6th Engineer Support Battalion, 4th Force Service Support Group, at South Bend; in March 2006 the Tribune reported some 125 members of Engineer Company B called to duty for 15 June 2006 and a second Iraq tour, the company having served in Iraq in 2003 — its deployments belong to the Wars record. The Marine Corps' own directory today lists the South Bend site, at 1901 Kemble Avenue, as active, under Engineer Services Company, Combat Logistics Battalion 25, Combat Logistics Regiment 45, 4th Marine Logistics Group. One conflict inside the Marine Corps' own publications is printed rather than averaged: a current administrative message (MARADMIN 377/26) still carries "ENGR CO B 6TH ESB" at South Bend in its unit table, where the Marine Forces Reserve unit directory carries the Engineer Services Company of CLB 25 — the directory is the unit's own page, and the message table appears to carry the older designation forward. Of a Navy reserve center in South Bend today, the current listings checked show none: the naval half of the 1963 training center has no successor institution in this record, and the line is left open there.

Sources:

1. "Reserve and National Guard units based in Indiana" (state-compiled listing, 19 September 2001; indianamilitary.org) — South Bend, Army Reserve: 199th Quartermaster Company, 428th Military Police Company, 766th Truck Battalion headquarters, 855th Quartermaster Company, 970th Transportation Detachment, Base Maintenance Activity 133; Marine Corps Reserve: Engineer Company B and Detachment 4, Engineer Support Company, 6th Engineer Support Battalion, 4th FSSG.
2. South Bend Tribune, 27 March 2006, via the Associated Press (29 March 2006) — about 125 members of Engineer Company B, based in South Bend, called to duty 15 June 2006 for Iraq, the company having served there in 2003.
3. Marine Forces Reserve, unit directory (marforres.marines.mil) — the South Bend site at 1901 Kemble Ave., operating status active, under Engineer Services Company, Combat Logistics Battalion 25, Combat Logistics Regiment 45, 4th Marine Logistics Group.
4. Headquarters Marine Corps, MARADMIN 377/26 — the SMCR unit table entry "IN — SOUTH BEND — ENGR CO B 6TH ESB," in conflict with the MARFORRES directory as noted in the entry.