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There is many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory, but, boys, it is all hell.

-- General William T. Sherman

Headquarters, 75th Division (Training Support)

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Constituted 24 December 1942 in the Army of the United States as Headquarters, 75th Infantry Division

Activated 15 April 1943 at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri

Inactivated 14 November 1945 at Camp Patrick Henry, Virginia

Allotted 21 February 1952 to the Organized Reserve Corps

Activated 1 March 1952 at Houston, Texas

(Organized Reserve Corps redesignated 9 July 1952 as the Army Reserve)

Inactivated 15 February 1957 at Houston, Texas

Redesignated 1 October 1993 as Headquarters, 75th Division (Exercise), and activated at Houston, Texas

Reorganized and redesignated 17 October 1999 as Headquarters, 75th Division (Training Support)

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75th Division (Training Support) Honors

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

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