Headquarters, 4th Brigade, 78th Division (Training Support)

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Constituted 5 August 1917 in the National Army as the 303d Supply Train and assigned to the 78th Division

Organized in December 1917-May 1918 at Camp Dix, New Jersey

Demobilized 5 June 1919 at Camp Dix, New Jersey

Reconstituted 3 July 1926 in the Organized Reserves; concurrently consolidated with the 78th Division Quartermaster Train (organized in November 1921 in the Organized Reserves as the 78th Division Train, Quartermaster Corps, with Headquarters at Newark, New Jersey; redesignated 23 March 1925 as the 78th Division Quartermaster Train) and consolidated unit designated as the 78th Division Quartermaster Train

Reorganized and redesignated 1 July 1936 as the 403d Quartermaster Regiment, an element of the 78th Division (later redesignated as the 78th Infantry Division)

Reorganized and redesignated 20 February 1942 as the 403d Quartermaster Battalion

Ordered into active military service 15 August 1942 and reorganized at Camp Butner, North Carolina

Ordnance Maintenance Platoon, Headquarters Company, 403d Quartermaster Battalion, reorganized and redesignated 14 September 1942 as the 778th Ordnance Light Maintenance Company, an element of the 78th Infantry Division (remainder of the battalion -- hereafter separate lineage)

Inactivated 22 May 1946 in Germany

Redesignated 6 February 1947 as the 778th Ordnance Maintenance Company

Activated 21 February 1947 at Newark, New Jersey

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

Reorganized and redesignated 11 March 1953 as Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment, 778th Ordnance Battalion (organic elements concurrently constituted and activated)

(Location of Headquarters changed 9 November 1955 to Kearny, New Jersey; on 1 November 1957 to Nixon, New Jersey)

Battalion disbanded 1 May 1959 at Nixon, New Jersey

Headquarters, 778th Ordnance Battalion, reconstituted 24 November 1967 in the Army Reserve as Headquarters, 4th Brigade, 78th Division (Training)

Activated 31 January 1968 at Nixon, New Jersey

Location changed 1 March 1975 to Edison, New Jersey; on 15 December 1992 to Richmond, Virginia

Reorganized and redesignated 1 October 1993 as Headquarters, 4th Brigade, 78th Division (Exercise)

Reorganized and redesignated 17 October 1999 as Headquarters, 4th Brigade, 78th Division (Training Support) and allotted to the Regular Army at Fort Bragg, North Carolina

Headquarters
4th Brigade, 78th Division (Training Support) Honors

Campaign Participation Credit

World War I: St. Mihiel; Meuse-Argonne; Lorraine 1918

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

Decorations

Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army) for EUROPEAN THEATER 1944

Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army) for EUROPEAN THEATER 1944-1945

  
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