1st Brigade, 84th Division (Institutional Training)
The 1st Brigade (One Station Unit Training), 84th Division (IT), headquartered in Livonia, Michigan is the Fort Benning Infantry Training Brigade's Army Reserve partner in training. Their Drill Sergeants have many years of experience and support the Infantry Training Brigade throughout the year in producing Active, Guard, and Reserve Infantry soldiers. Also, the 1st Brigade provides Battalion and Brigade displacements to help support the Infantry Training Brigade mission. In turn, the Infantry Training Brigade receives, integrates, trains, and evaluates soldiers and staff in the 1st Brigade. During mobilization, the 1st Brigade would be called up to train Infantry soldiers as the Army's second Infantry Training Brigade.
When young men report to Fort Benning, Ga., to endure the rigorous process that will turn them into infantrymen, it's often Army Reserve drill sergeants from 1st Brigade, 84th Division, who are there to help them succeed. The Reserve soldiers spend two weeks on active duty each year -- teaching marksmanship, hand-to-hand combat and land navigation; conducting physical training; and instilling Army values.
The 1st Brigade, 84th Division (Training) was constituted 5 August 1917 in the National Army as Headquarters Troop, 84th Division. Organized in September 1917 at Camp Zachary Taylor, Kentucky. Demobilized in November 1918 in France.
Reconstituted 24 June 1921 in the Organized Reserves as Headquarters Company, 84th Division. Organized in July 1922 at Indianapolis, Indiana.
Redesignated 23 February 1942 as Headquarters and Military Police Company (less Military Police Platoon), 84th Division. Ordered into active military service 15 October 1942 and reorganized at Camp Howze, Texas, as Headquarters Company, 84th Infantry Division. Inactivated 21 January 1946 at Camp Kilmer, New Jersey
Redesignated 19 December 1946 as Headquarters Company, 84th Airborne Division. Activated 19 May 1947 at Madison, 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 Headquarters Company, 84th Infantry Division. Location changed 20 August 1957 to Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Disbanded 15 May 1959 at Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Reconstituted 24 November 1967 in the Army Reserve as Headquarters, 1st Brigade, 84th Division (Training). Activated 31 January 1968 at Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Location changed 16 September 1993 to Waukegan, Illinois; on 16 November 1996 to Livonia, Michigan.
