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Lineage and Honors Information as of 13 January 2016

Headquarters,
83d United States Army Reserve
Readiness Training Center
(Thunderbolt)

  • Constituted 5 August 1917 in the National Army as Headquarters, 83d Division
  • Organized 25 August 1917 at Camp Sherman, Ohio
  • Demobilized 8 October 1919 at Camp Sherman, Ohio
  • Reconstituted 24 June 1921 in the Organized Reserves as Headquarters, 83d Division
  • Organized 27 September 1921 at Columbus, Ohio
  • Redesignated 23 February 1942 as Division Headquarters, 83d Division
  • Ordered into active military service 15 August 1942 and reorganized at Camp Atterbury, Indiana; concurrently redesignated as Headquarters, 83d Infantry Division
  • Inactivated 27 March 1946 at Camp Kilmer, New Jersey
  • Activated 1 October 1946 at Cleveland, Ohio
  • (Organized Reserves redesignated 25 March 1948 as the Organized Reserve Corps; redesignated 9 July 1952 as the Army Reserve)
  • Reorganized and redesignated 15 April 1959 as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 83d Infantry Division
  • Inactivated 31 December 1965 at Cleveland, Ohio
  • Redesignated 27 November 2013 as Headquarters, 83d United States Army Reserve Readiness Training Center
  • Activated 6 February 2014 at Fort Knox, Kentucky

Campaign Participation Credit

  • World War I
  • Streamer without inscription
  • World War II
  • Normandy
  • Northern France
  • Rhineland
  • Ardennes-Alsace
  • Central Europe

Decorations

None

By Order of the Secretary of the Army:

CHARLES R. BOWERY, JR.
Chief of Military History


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