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Headquarters
85th Division (Training Support)
(Custer)

Lineage and Honors Information as of 5 July 2001

Headquarters
85th Division (Training Support) Lineage

Constituted 5 August 1917 in the National Army as Headquarters, 85th Division

Organized 25 August 1917 at Camp Custer, Michigan

Demobilized 18 April 1919 at Camp Custer, Michigan

Reconstituted 24 June 1921 in the Organized Reserves as Headquarters, 85th Division

Organized 10 September 1921 at Detroit, Michigan

Redesignated 31 March 1942 as Division Headquarters, 85th Division

Ordered into active military service 15 May 1942 and reorganized at Camp Shelby, Mississippi

Redesignated 1 August 1942 as Headquarters, 85th Infantry Division

Disbanded 25 August 1945 at Camp Patrick Henry, Virginia

Reconstituted 6 November 1946 in the Organized Reserves as Headquarters, 85th Infantry Division

Activated 19 February 1947 at Litchfield, Illinois

Location changed 10 July 1947 to Springfield, Illinois

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

Location changed 1 March 1949 to Chicago, Illinois

Reorganized and redesignated 1 June 1959 as Headquarters, 85th Division (Training)

Location changed 15 May 1984 to Arlington Heights, Illinois

Reorganized and redesignated 1 October 1993 as Headquarters, 85th Division (Exercise)

Reorganized and redesignated 17 October 1999 as Headquarters, 85th Division (Training Support)

Headquarters
85th Division (Training Support) Honors

Campaign Participation Credit

World War I: Streamer without inscription

World War II: Rome-Arno; North Apennines; Po Valley

Decorations

None


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