Headquarters
2d Brigade, 80th Division (Training)
Lineage and Honors Information as of 26 February 1997
Headquarters
2d Brigade, 80th Division (Training) Lineage
Constituted 5 August 1917 in the National Army as the 305th Ammunition Train and assigned to the 80th Division
Organized in September 1917 at Camp Lee, Virginia
Demobilized 9 June 1919 at Camp Dix, New Jersey
Reconstituted 28 October 1936 in the Organized Reserves; concurrently
consolidated with the 305th Ammunition Train (organized in December 1921 in
the
Organized Reserves with Headquarters at Washington, D.C.) and consolidated unit
designated as the 305th Ammunition Train, an element of the 80th Division
Converted and redesignated 12 February 1942 as the 905th Field
Artillery Battalion and remained assigned to the 80th Division (later redesignated
as the 80th
Infantry Division)
Ordered into active military service 15 July 1942 and reorganized at Camp Forrest, Tennessee
Inactivated 6 January 1946 at Camp Kilmer, New Jersey
Redesignated 15 July 1946 as the 905th Glider Field Artillery Battalion (80th Infantry Division concurrently redesignated as the 80th Airborne Division)
Activated 21 May 1947 with Headquarters at Bristol, Virginia
(Organized Reserves redesignated 25 March 1948 as the Organized Reserve Corps; redesignated 9 July 1952 as the Army Reserve)
Reorganized and redesignated 18 October 1950 as the 905th Field Artillery
(80th Airborne Division redesignated 10 May 1952 as the 80th Infantry Division)
Disbanded 23 March 1959 at Bristol, Virginia
Headquarters, 905th Field Artillery Battalion, reconstituted 24 November 1967 in the Army Reserve as Headquarters, 2d Brigade, 80th Division (Training)
Activated 30 January 1968 at Salem, Virginia
Headquarters
2d Brigade, 80th Division (Training) Honors
Campaign Participation Credit
World War I: Meuse-Argonne
World War II: Northern France; Rhineland; Ardennes-Alsace; Central Europe
Decorations
None