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| start_date =16 Sep 1992
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| branch = [[US Army]]
| type = Support
| role = Aviation Support
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| command_structure = [[3rd Combat Aviation Brigade]]
| garrison = [[Hunter Army Airfield]]
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| motto = ''No Mission Denied''
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*[[War in Afghanistan (2001–2021)|Afghanistan]]
**Consolidation II
**Consolidation III
*[[Iraq War|Iraq]]
**Liberation of Iraq
**Transition of Iraq
**Iraqi Governance
**National Resolution
**Iraqi Surge
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| commander1 = LTC Peter A. Thomas
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{{Military unit sidebar|title=US Aviation Support Battalions|previous=602nd Aviation Support Battalion|602nd Aviation Support Battalion|next=615th Aviation Support Battalion|615th Aviation Support Battalion}}
The '''603d Aviation Support Battalion (ASB)''' is an Aviation Support Battalion under the [[3rd Combat Aviation Brigade]] and stationed at [[Hunter Army Airfield]] in [[Savannah, Georgia]].
== History ==
The 603d Support Battalion was constituted on September 16, 1992, into the [[United States Army]] and assigned to the [[3rd Infantry Division (United States)|3rd Infantry Division]].<ref name="603rd Support Battalion Lineage and Honors">{{cite web|title=603rd Support Battalion Lineage and Honors|url=https://history.army.mil/html/forcestruc/lineages/branches/spt/0603sptbn.htm|publisher=US Army Center of Military History|access-date=19 Nov 2023}}</ref> 603d ASB would be activated in Germany. The unit would be relieved from its assignment to the 3rd Infantry Division on May 16, 2004.<ref name="603rd Support Battalion Lineage and Honors"/>
==Lineage and Honors==
===Campaign participation credit===
'''War on Terrorism'''
*''Afghanistan''
**Consolidation II
**Consolidation III
*''Iraq''
**Liberation of Iraq
**Transition of Iraq
**Iraqi Governance
**National Resolution
**Iraqi Surge
===Decorations===
{| class="wikitable" style="float:left;"
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! Ribbon
! Award
! Year
! Notes
|-
||[[File:United States Army and U.S. Air Force Presidential Unit Citation ribbon.svg|50px|alt=Dark blue ribbon with a gold border]]
||[[Presidential Unit Citation (US)|Presidential Unit Citation]] (Army) <ref name="Permanent Orders 110-15">{{cite web |title=Permanent Orders 110-15 |url=https://history.army.mil/html/forcestruc/HRC/2009/110-015_20090420_HRCMD.pdf |publisher=United States Army |access-date=19 November 2023}}</ref>
||2003
||Streamer embroidered [[2003 invasion of Iraq|IRAQ 2003]]
|-
||[[File:Meritorious Unit Commendation ribbon.svg|50px|alt=Red ribbon]]
||[[Meritorious Unit Commendation]]<ref name="Permanent Orders 291-07">{{cite web |title=Permanent Orders 291-07 |url=https://history.army.mil/html/forcestruc/HRC/2007/291-007_20071018_HRCMD.pdf |publisher=United States Army |access-date=19 November 2023}}</ref>
|| 2005
||Streamer embroidered [[Iraq War troop surge of 2007|SOUTHWEST ASIA 2005]]
|-
||[[File:Meritorious Unit Commendation ribbon.svg|50px|alt=Red ribbon]]
||[[Meritorious Unit Commendation]]<ref name="Permanent Orders 146-01">{{cite web |title=Permanent Orders 146-01 |url=https://history.army.mil/html/forcestruc/HRC/2009/146-001_20090526_HRCMD.pdf |publisher=United States Army |access-date=19 November 2023}}</ref>
|| 2007-2008
||Streamer embroidered [[Iraq War troop surge of 2007|IRAQ 2007-2008]]
|-
||[[File:Meritorious Unit Commendation ribbon.svg|50px|alt=Red ribbon]]
||[[Meritorious Unit Commendation]]<ref name="Permanent Orders 357-07">{{cite web |title=Permanent Orders 357-07 |url=https://history.army.mil/html/forcestruc/HRC/2010/357-07_20101223_HRCMD.pdf |publisher=United States Army |access-date=19 November 2023}}</ref>
|| 2009-2010
||Streamer embroidered [[Iraq War troop surge of 2007|AFGHANISTAN 2009-2010]]
|-
||[[File:Meritorious Unit Commendation ribbon.svg|50px|alt=Red ribbon]]
||[[Meritorious Unit Commendation]]<ref name="Permanent Orders 276-08">{{cite web |title=Permanent Orders 276-08 |url=https://history.army.mil/html/forcestruc/HRC/2013/276-08_20131003_HRCMD.pdf |publisher=United States Army |access-date=19 November 2023}}</ref>
|| 2012-2013
||Streamer embroidered [[Iraq War troop surge of 2007|AFGHANISTAN 2012-2013]]
|-
|}
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==References==
<references/>
[[Category:Support battalions of the United States Army|AVN 603]]
[[Category:Military units and formations established in 1992]]