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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


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