Headquarters
3d Brigade, 80th Division (Training)
Lineage and Honors Information as of 19 February 1997
Headquarters
3d Brigade, 80th Division (Training) Lineage
Constituted 5 August 1917 in the National Army as the 305th Engineers and assigned to the 80th Division
Organized in September 1917 at Camp Lee, Virginia
Demobilized 12 June 1919 at Camp Dix, New Jersey
Reconstituted 24 June 1921 in the Organized Reserves as the 305th Engineers and assigned to the 80th Division (later redesignated as the 80th Infantry Division)
Organized in December 1921 with Headquarters at Richmond, Virginia
Redesignated (less 2d Battalion) 12 February 1942 as the 30th Engineer Battalion (2d Battalion--hereafter separate lineage)
Ordered into active military service 15 July 1942 and reorganized at Camp Forrest, Tennessee
Reorganized and redesignated 1 August 1942 as the 305th Engineer Combat Battalion
Inactivated 5 January 1946 at Camp Dix, New Jersey
Redesignated 15 July 1946 as the 305th Airborne Engineer Battalion (80th Infantry Division concurrently redesignated as the 80th Airborne Division)
Activated 12 March 1948 at Richmond, Virginia
(Organized Reserves redesignated 25 March 1948 as the Organized Reserve Corps; redesignated 9 July 1952 as the Army Reserve)
Reorganized and redesignated 10 May 1952 as the 305th Engineer Combat Battalion (80th Airborne Division concurrently redesignated as the 80th Infantry Division)
Reorganized and redesignated 17 July 1953 as the 305th Engineer Battalion
Inactivated 4 June 1954 at Richmond, Virginia
Activated 19 April 1956 with Headquarters at Abingdon, Virginia
Disbanded (less Companies A and B) 11 May 1959 at Abingdon, Virginia (Companies A and B--hereafter separate lineages)
Headquarters, 305th Engineer Battalion, reconstituted 24 November 1967 in the Army Reserve as Headquarters, 3d Brigade, 80th Division (Training)
Activated 30 January 1968 at Richmond, Virginia
Inactivated 31 August 1973 at Richmond, Virginia
Activated 16 September 1988 at Charleston, West Virginia
Location changed 25 September 1990 to Big Chimney, West Virginia
Inactivated 13 January 1995 at Big Chimney, West Virginia
Activated 16 November 1996 at Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
Headquarters
3d Brigade, 80th Division (Training) Honors
Campaign Participation Credit
World War I: Somme Offensive; Meuse-Argonne; Picardy 1918
World War II: Northern France; Rhineland; Ardennes-Alsace; Central Europe
Decorations
None