Lineage and Honors Information as of 2 June 2018

Headquarters
98th Training Division

  • Constituted 23 July 1918 in the National Army as Headquarters, 98th Division
  • Organized in October 1918 at Camp McClellan, Alabama
  • Demobilized in November 1918 at Camp McClellan, Alabama
  • Reconstituted 24 June 1921 in the Organized Reserves as Headquarters, 98th Division
  • Organized 18 August 1921 at Syracuse, New York
  • Redesignated 20 February 1942 as Division Headquarters, 98th Division
  • Ordered into active military service 15 September 1942 and reorganized at Camp Breckinridge, Kentucky; concurrently redesignated as Headquarters, 98th Infantry Division
  • Inactivated 16 February 1946 in Japan
  • Activated 19 December 1946 at Syracuse, New York
  • Location changed 3 September 1947 to Rochester, New York
  • (Organized Reserves redesignated 25 March 1948 as the Organized Reserve Corps; redesignated 9 July 1952 as the Army Reserve)
  • Location changed 26 August 1949 to Syracuse, New York; on 6 October 1950 to Rochester, New York
  • Reorganized and redesignated 1 May 1959 as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 98th Division (Training)
  • Location changed 1 May 1977 to Webster, New York; on 10 November 1980 to Rochester, New York
  • Reorganized and redesignated 1 October 1994 as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 98th Division (Institutional Training)
  • Reorganized and redesignated 16 September 2008 as Headquarters, 98th Training Division
  • Location changed 15 May 2012 to Fort Benning, Georgia

Campaign Participation Credit

  • World War II
  • Asiatic-Pacific Theater, Streamer without inscription

Decorations

  • Army Superior Unit Award, Streamer embroidered 2004-2005

By Order of the Secretary of the Army:

CHARLES R. BOWERY, JR.
Chief of Military History


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