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
By Order of the Secretary of the Army:
CHARLES R. BOWERY, JR.
Chief of Military History
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