CMH Home
CMH Home
Lineage And Honors Information

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

  • None

By Order of the Secretary of the Army:

Robert J. Dalessandro
Director, Center of Military History


Return to Branch Index