Lineage and Honors Information as of 11 September 2019

Headquarters
88th Readiness Division, United States Army Reserve
(Blue Devils)

  • Constituted 5 August 1917 in the National Army as Headquarters, 88th Division
  • Organized 25 August 1917 at Camp Dodge, Iowa
  • Demobilized 10 June 1919 at Camp Dodge, Iowa
  • Reconstituted 24 June 1921 in the Organized Reserves as Headquarters, 88th Division
  • Organized in September 1921 at Minneapolis, Minnesota
  • Reorganized and redesignated 22 February 1942 as Division Headquarters, 88th Division
  • Ordered into active military service 15 July 1942 and reorganized at Camp Gruber, Oklahoma, as Headquarters, 88th Division
  • Redesignated 1 August 1942 as Headquarters, 88th Infantry Division
  • Inactivated 24 October 1947 in Italy
  • (Organized Reserves redesignated 25 March 1948 as the Organized Reserve Corps; redesignated 9 July 1952 as the Army Reserve)
  • Redesignated 7 November 2007 as Headquarters, 88th Regional Support Command, United States Army Reserve
  • Activated 17 September 2008 at Fort McCoy, Wisconsin
  • Reorganized and redesignated 17 October 2018 as Headquarters, 88th Readiness Division, United States Army Reserve
  • Location changed 1 January 2019 to Fort Snelling, Minnesota

Campaign Participation Credit

  • World War I
  • Alsace 1918
  • World War II
  • Rome-Arno
  • North Apennines
  • Po Valley

Decorations

  • French Croix de Guerre with Palm, World War II, Streamer embroidered CENTRAL ITALY

By Order of the Secretary of the Army:

CHARLES R. BOWERY, JR.
Chief of Military History


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