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Headquarters
4th Brigade, 100th Division (Training)

Lineage and Honors Information as of 3 June 1997

Headquarters
4th Brigade, 100th Division (Training) Lineage

Constituted 24 June 1921 in the Organized Reserves as the 100th Division Train, Quartermaster Corps

Organized in December 1921 with Headquarters at Huntington, West Virginia

Redesignated 23 March 1925 as the 100th Division Quartermaster Train

(Location of Headquarters changed 9 September 1929 to Wheeling, West Virginia; on 27 October 1931 to Huntington, West Virginia)

Redesignated 1 July 1936 as the 425th Quartermaster Regiment and remained assigned to the 100th Division

Redesignated 23 February 1942 as the 425th Quartermaster Battalion

Ordnance Maintenance Platoon, Headquarters Company, 425th Quartermaster Battalion, redesignated 27 September 1942 as the 800th Ordnance Light Maintenance Company, an element of the 100th Division (later redesignated as the 100th Infantry Division) (remainder of battalion--hereafter separate lineage)

Ordered into active military service 8 October 1942 and reorganized at Fort Jackson, South Carolina

Inactivated 11 January 1946 at Camp Patrick Henry, Virginia

Redesignated 15 October 1946 as the 800th Airborne Ordnance Maintenance Company, an element of the 100th Airborne Division

Activated 12 December 1946 at Buckhannon, West Virginia

Location changed 30 October 1947 to Elkins, West Virginia

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

Location changed 12 May 1949 to Morgantown, West Virginia

Reorganized and redesignated 12 May 1952 as the 800th Ordnance Maintenance Company, an element of the 100th Infantry Division

Reorganized and redesignated 15 November 1953 as Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment, 800th Ordnance Battalion (organic elements concurrently constituted and activated)

(Location of Headquarters changed 12 December 1956 to Louisville, Kentucky)

Battalion disbanded 17 April 1959 at Louisville, Kentucky

Headquarters, 800th Ordnance Battalion, reconstituted 24 November 1967 in the Army Reserve as Headquarters, 4th Brigade, 100th Division (Training)

Activated 26 January 1968 at Louisville, Kentucky

Inactivated 1 August 1973 at Louisville, Kentucky

Activated 16 November 1996 at Montgomery, Alabama

Headquarters
4th Brigade, 100th Division (Training) Honors

Campaign Participation Credit

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

Decorations

Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army) for EUROPEAN THEATER


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