Lineage and Honors Information as of 11 September 2019
Headquarters
81st Readiness Division, US Army Reserve
(Wildcat)
- Constituted 5 August 1917 in the National Army as Headquarters, 81st Division
- Organized 25 August 1917 at Camp Jackson, South Carolina
- Demobilized 11 June 1919 at Hoboken, New Jersey
- Reconstituted 24 June 1921 in the Organized Reserves as Headquarters, 81st Division
- Organized 23 September 1921 at Knoxville, Tennessee
- Redesignated 13 February 1942 as Division Headquarters, 81st Division
- Ordered into active military service 15 June 1942 and reorganized at Camp Rucker, Alabama
- Redesignated 1 August 1942 as Headquarters, 81st Infantry Division
- Inactivated 20 January 1946 in Japan
- Activated 10 November 1947 at Atlanta, Georgia
- (Organized Reserves redesignated 25 March 1948 as the Organized Reserve Corps; redesignated 9 July 1952 as the Army Reserve)
- Reorganized and redesignated May 1959 as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 81st Infantry Division
- Inactivated 31 December 1965 at Atlanta, Georgia
- Redesignated 17 November 2007 as Headquarters, 81st Regional Support Command, US Army Reserve
- Activated 17 September 2008 at Fort Jackson, South Carolina
- Reorganized and redesignated 17 October 2018 as Headquarters, 81st Readiness Division, US Army Reserve
Campaign Participation Credit
- World War I
- Meuse-Argonne
- Lorraine 1918
- World War II
- Western Pacific
- Leyte
Decorations
- Philippine Presidential Unit Citation, Streamer embroidered 17 OCTOBER 1944 TO 4 JULY 1945
By Order of the Secretary of the Army:
CHARLES R. BOWERY, JR.
Chief of Military History