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Headquarters
5th Brigade, 78th Division (Training Support)

Lineage and Honors Information as of 5 July 2001

Headquarters
5th Brigade, 78th Division (Training Support) Lineage

Constituted 5 August 1917 in the National Army as the 303d Supply Train and assigned to the 78th Division

Organized in December 1917-May 1918 at Camp Dix, New Jersey

Demobilized 5 June 1919 at Camp Dix, New Jersey

Reconstituted 3 July 1926 in the Organized Reserves; concurrently consolidated with the 78th Division Quartermaster Train (organized in November 1921 in the Organized Reserves as the 78th Division Train, Quartermaster Corps, with Headquarters at Newark, New Jersey; redesignated 23 March 1925 as the 78th Division Quartermaster Train) and consolidated unit designated as the 78th Division Quartermaster Train

Reorganized and redesignated 1 July 1936 as the 403d Quartermaster Regiment, an element of the 78th Division (later redesignated as the 78th Infantry Division)

Reorganized and redesignated 20 February 1942 as the 403d Quartermaster Battalion

Ordered into active military service 15 August 1942 and reorganized at Camp Butner, North Carolina

Reorganized and redesignated (less Ordnance Maintenance Platoon, Headquarters Company) 27 September 1942 as the 78th Quartermaster Company, an element of the 78th Infantry Division (Ordnance Maintenance Platoon, Headquarters Company -- hereafter separate lineage)

Inactivated 22 May 1946 in Germany

Activated 21 February 1947 at Newark, New Jersey

(Organized Reserves redesignated 25 March 1948 as the Organized Reserve Corps; redesignated 9 July 1952 as the Army Reserve)

Inactivated 18 March 1954 at Newark, New Jersey

Disbanded 1 May 1959

Reconstituted 24 November 1967 in the Army Reserve as the 78th Committee Group, an element of the 78th Division (Training)

Activated 31 January 1968 at Camp Kilmer, New Jersey

Reorganized and redesignated 1 August 1971 as Headquarters, 78th Committee Group, an element of the 78th Division (Training)

Reorganized and redesignated 16 October 1978 as Headquarters, 78th Training Command, an element of the 78th Division (Training)

Inactivated 17 October 1984 at Edison, New Jersey

Redesignated 1 October 1993 as Headquarters, 5th Brigade, 78th Division (Exercise), and activated at Baltimore, Maryland

Reorganized and redesignated 17 October 1999 as Headquarters, 5th Brigade, 78th Division (Training Support) and allotted to the Regular Army at Fort Meade, Maryland

Headquarters
5th Brigade, 78th Division (Training Support) Honors

Campaign Participation Credit

World War I: St. Mihiel; Meuse-Argonne; Lorraine 1918

World War II: Rhineland; Ardennes-Alsace; Central Europe

Decorations

Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army) for EUROPEAN THEATER


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