452d Combat Support
Hospital
Alumni Association
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In 1993, the former 30th Hospital Center was reorganized and converted to the 330th Medical Brigade. A part of the that process was to assume a new brigade patch as shown to the upper left. The 452d General Hospital was also re-organized into a combat support hospital, the 452d CSH. This Army Reserve re-organization saw the deactivation of the 86th USARCOM and command and control move to the 88th Regional Support Command at Ft. Snelling MN. The 452d CSH also was re-organized into smaller medical detachments covering much of the Midwest, although the headquarters remains in Milwaukee WI.
Training switched from a fixed installation hospital setting to the mobile DEPMEDS field training. A new medical training center was established at Ft. McCoy and training took on a whole new focus with a much stronger emphasis on field activities. AT’s were now spent setting up the hospital for field exercise. This training lead to a three week exercise at Ft. Polk in 1998 and being evaluated for their ability to set up and build the hospital and then functioning within the hospital during mock medical training exercises. Once again the 452d performed outstandingly and set a record in setting the hospital up and getting it functional within four hours. The only medical unit to pass the exercise.
Continuing it’s proud traditions, the unit has been deployed several times in support of the War on Terrorism. The last time in 2009 to Forward Operating Base Salerno, Afghanistan.
The 452d CSH looks forward to additional challenges and accomplishments in the the future and with God’s help, the future lies in the members hands to STUDY-HEAL-TEACH.
The 452d has had many accomplishments over the years. It’s a proud unit that has studied and learned well and healed to conserve the fighting strength. It continues the traditions of being one of the finest units of it’s kind in the Army Reserve. Past commanders that have continued these traditions include COL Edward Loftus, BG John Arkins, COL Joseph Beres, COL Robert Lipo, COL Bertram Milsen, COL Joseph Skibba, COL Timothy Shaw, MG James Hasbargen, COL James Hove, MG Richard Stone, COL Margaret Sullivan, and LTC Patricia Ten Haaf.