Lineage and Honors Information as of 26 March 2012
HEADQUARTERS
84th TRAINING COMMAND
(RAILSPLITTERS)
- Constituted 5 August 1917 in the National Army as Headquarters, 84th Division
- Organized 25 August 1917 at Camp Zachary Taylor, Kentucky
- Demobilized 26 July 1919 at Camp Zachary Taylor, Kentucky
- Reconstituted 24 June 1921 in the Organized Reserves as Headquarters, 84th Division
- Organized 28 September 1921 at Indianapolis, Indiana
- Redesignated 23 February 1942 as Division Headquarters, 84th Division
- Ordered into active military service 15 October 1942 and reorganized at Camp Howze, Texas; concurrently redesignated as Headquarters, 84th Infantry Division
- Inactivated 21 January 1946 at Camp Kilmer, New Jersey
- Redesignated 19 December 1946 as Headquarters, 84th Airborne Division
- Activated 24 September 1947 at Madison, Wisconsin
- Location changed 17 November 1947 to Milwaukee, Wisconsin; on 15 March 1948 to Madison, Wisconsin
- (Organized Reserves redesignated 25 March 1948 as the Organized Reserve Corps; redesignated 9 July 1952 as the Army Reserve)
- Reorganized and redesignated 1 March 1952 as Headquarters, 84th Infantry Division
- Location changed 20 August 1957 to Milwaukee, Wisconsin
- Reorganized and redesignated 18 May 1959 as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 84th Division (Training)
- Reorganized and redesignated 1 October 1994 as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 84th Division (Institutional Training)
- Inactivated 15 January 2006 at Milwaukee, Wisconsin
- Redesignated 17 October 2007 as Headquarters, 84th Training Command, and activated at Fort McCoy, Wisconsin
- Location changed 30 June 2009 to Fort Knox, Kentucky
Campaign Participation Credit
- World War I
- Streamer without inscription
- World War II
- Rhineland
- Ardennes-Alsace
- Central Europe
Decorations
By Order of the Secretary of the Army:
Robert J. Dalessandro
Director, Center of Military History
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