Bio
Born at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, in 1945, Louis G. Mason graduated from the University of Southern Mississippi and was commissioned as a Quartermaster Officer in the Regular Army in 1967.
Serving as an area Logistics Officer (S-4) with the 5th Special Forces Group in Vietnam, and then with the 82nd Airborne Division, he later became Chief, Supply Division, G-4, U.S. Army John F. Kennedy Center for Military Assistance.
Captain Mason commanded a company in 1st Corps Support Command, and completed three other assignments before a second tour at the U.S. Army Institute for Military Assistance, this time as Chief of Logistics.
As Deputy Chief of Staff, Logistics, 1st Special Operations Command, he championed the establishment of an ARSOF combat service support (CSS) battalion, the 13th Support Battalion, which he commanded upon activation in 1986.
The following year, at Mason’s urging, the battalion was redesignated the 528th Special Operations Support Battalion, inheriting the lineage of the 528th Quartermaster Battalion, a combat-decorated CSS unit that fought alongside the First Special Service Force in World War II.
He also designed his battalion’s distinctive unit insignia (DUI), still worn by the 528th Sustainment Brigade. Mason retired as a Colonel in 1994 and passed away in 2022.
