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UNITED STATES The Berlin Brigade was an United States Army unit; its shoulder sleeve insignia was the U.S. Army Europe patch with Berlin tab. During the Berlin Wall Crisis of 1961, the army reorganized the command structure of the forces in Berlin and created the U.S. Army Berlin and created the Berlin Brigade from the units already in the city. The brigade consisted of the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th Battalions of the 6th Infantry Regiment (reflagged to 4th, 5th and 6th Battalions of the 502d Infantry Regiment ), Company C of the 94th Field Artillery, Company F of the 40th Armor, 42nd Engineer Company, 42nd Military Police Company (Customs), 287th Military Police Company (Separate), and 298th Army Band (longest serving unit in Berlin). After the reunification of Germany, the Berlin Brigade was no longer necessary and it was deactivated in 1994. UNITED KINGDOM The Berlin Brigade of the British Army consisted of some 3,000 men in three infantry battalions, an armoured squadron, and a number of support units. Despite being based in Germany, the force was not part of the British Army Of The Rhine , but instead treated as a separate overseas garrison. The actual units assigned to Berlin were rotated regularly; the single armoured squadron was detached from an armoured regiment assigned to I (BR) Corps . A single Flight of the Army Air Corps , based at RAF Gatow , provided aviation support. EXTERNAL LINKS
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