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Constituted 5 August 1917 in the National Army as the 309th Supply Train and assigned to the 84th Division
Organized 7 September 1917 at Camp Zachary Taylor, Kentucky Demobilized June-July 1919 at Camp Sherman, Ohio Reconstituted 21 September 1936 in the Organized Reserves; concurrently consolidated with the 409th Quartermaster Regiment (organized in November 1921 in the Organized Reserves as the 84th Division Train, Quartermaster Corps, with Headquarters at Indianapolis, Indiana; redesignated 23 March 1925 as the 84th Division Quartermaster Train; redesignated 1 July 1936 as the 409th Quartermaster Regiment) and consolidated unit designated as the 409th Quartermaster Regiment, an element of the 84th Division Redesignated 23 February 1942 as the 409th Quartermaster Battalion Redesignated (less Ordnance Maintenance Platoon, Headquarters Company) 27 September 1942 as the 84th Quartermaster Company, an element of the 84th Infantry Division (Ordnance Maintenance Platoon, Headquarters Company--hereafter separate lineage) Ordered into active military service 15 October 1942 and reorganized at Camp Howze, Texas 84th Quartermaster Company inactivated 24 January 1946 at Camp Kilmer, New Jersey Redesignated 19 December 1946 as the 84th Airborne Quartermaster Company (84th Infantry Division concurrently redesignated as the 84th Airborne Division) Activated 19 May 1947 at Green Bay, Wisconsin Location changed 17 March 1948 to Appleton, Wisconsin (Organized Reserves redesignated 25 March 1948 as the Organized Reserve Corps; redesignated 9 July 1952 as the Army Reserve) Reorganized and redesignated 1 March 1952 as the 84th Quartermaster Company (84th Airborne Division concurrently redesignated as the 84th Infantry Division) Location changed 16 December 1957 to Menasha, Wisconsin Disbanded 18 May 1959 at Menasha, Wisconsin Reconstituted 24 November 1967 in the Army Reserve as the 84th Committee Group and assigned to the 84th Division (Training) Activated 31 January 1968 at Milwaukee, Wisconsin Reorganized and redesignated 1 September 1971 as Headquarters, 84th Committee Group Reorganized and redesignated 15 October 1978 as Headquarters, 84th Training Command, an element of the 84th Division (Training) Inactivated 16 October 1984 at Milwaukee, Wisconsin Redesignated 16 November 1996 as Headquarters, 7th Brigade, 84th Division (Training), and activated at Milwaukee, Wisconsin Headquarters 7th Brigade, 84th Division (Training) Honors Campaign Participation Credit World War I: Streamer without inscription World War II: Rhineland; Ardennes-Alsace; Central Europe Decorations Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army) for EUROPEAN THEATER |
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1738:
English parliament declares war on Spain.
1800: The USS Essex becomes first U.S. Navy vessel to pass the Cape of Good Hope. 1814: The HMS Phoebe and Cherub capture the USS Essex off Valparaiso, Chile. 1854: Britain and France declare war on Russia. 1862: Union forces stop the Confederate invasion of New Mexico territory when they turn the Rebels back at Glorieta Pass. 1864: A group of Copperheads attack Federal soldiers in Charleston, Illinois. Five are killed and twenty wounded. 1917: The Womens Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC) is founded, Great Britains first official service women. 1939: The Spanish Civil War ends as Madrid falls to Francisco Franco. 1941: Andrew Browne Cunningham, Admiral of the British Fleet, commands the British Royal Navys destruction of three major Italian battleships and two destroyers in the Battle of Cape Matapan in the Mediterranean. 1942: A British ship, the HMS Capbeltown, a Lend-Lease American destroyer, which was specifically rammed into a German occupied dry-dock in France, explodes, knocking the area out of action for the German battleship Tirpitz. |