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Headquarters
4th Brigade, 87th Division (Training Support)

Lineage and Honors Information as of 5 July 2001

Headquarters
4th Brigade, 87th Division (Training Support) Lineage

Constituted 1 July 1916 in the Enlisted Reserve Corps as a Signal Corps battalion

Organized September-October 1917 in Arkansas as the 15th Reserve Field Signal Battalion

Ordered into active military service 5 October 1917 at Camp Pike, Arkansas; concurrently redesignated as the 312th Field Signal Battalion and assigned to the 87th Division

Demobilized 2 April 1919 at Camp Dix, New Jersey

Reconstituted 4 September 1936 in the Organized Reserves; concurrently consolidated with the 87th Signal Company (organized in December 1921 in the Organized Reserves with Headquarters at Jackson, Mississippi) and consolidated unit designated as the 87th Signal Company, an element of the 87th Division (later redesignated as the 87th Infantry Division)

Ordered into active military service 15 December 1942 and reorganized at Camp McCain, Mississippi

Inactivated 21 September 1945 at Fort Benning, Georgia

Activated 1 March 1947 at Birmingham, Alabama

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

Inactivated 30 April 1954 at Birmingham, Alabama

87th Signal Company consolidated 17 October 1999 with Headquarters, 4th Brigade, 87th Division (Exercise) (activated 1 October 1993 at Fort Gillem, Georgia); consolidated unit reorganized and redesignated as Headquarters, 4th Brigade, 87th Division (Training Support) and allotted to the Regular Army at Fort Stewart, Georgia

Headquarters
4th Brigade, 87th Division (Training Support) Honors

Campaign Participation Credit

World War I: Streamer without inscription

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

Decorations

None


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