4th Brigade, 84th Division (Institutional Training)
4th Brigade (Combat Service Support) is headquartered in Indianapolis, IN. Its mission is to provide instruction in combat service support subjects like transportation, ordnance, quartermaster, and personnel services. The 4th Brigade serves as the headquarters for Battalions that perform Institutional Training in several states throughout the Midwest. These Battalions are headquartered in Ohio, Illinois, and Wisconsin and support MOS training in Personnel, Quartermaster, Transportation, and Ordnance. The mission of the Brigade is to conduct Combat Service Support MOSQ training (IDT and AT) in support of Total Army in Region E. Additional missions as assigned by higher command. This training encompasses those MOS's in the Personnel Services, Transportation, Quartermaster, and Ordnance CMFs.
The 4th Brigade, 84th Division (Training) was 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. Ordnance Maintenance Platoon, Headquarters Company, 409th Quartermaster Battalion, redesignated 18 September 1942 as the 784th Ordnance Company, an element of the 84th Infantry Division (remainder of the battalion--hereafter separate lineage).
Ordered into active military service 15 October 1942 and reorganized at Camp Howze, Texas. Inactivated 22 January 1946 at Camp Kilmer, New Jersey.
Redesignated 19 December 1946 as the 784th Airborne Ordnance Maintenance Company and assigned to the 84th Airborne Division (84th Infantry Division concurrently redesignated as the 84th Airborne Division). Activated 7 April 1947 at Milwaukee, 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 784th Ordnance Maintenance Company (84th Airborne Division concurrently redesignated as the 84th Infantry Division). Reorganized and redesignated 1 June 1953 as Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment, 784th Ordnance Battalion (organic elements concurrently constituted and activated). Battalion disbanded 18 May 1959 at Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Headquarters, 784th Ordnance Battalion, reconstituted 24 November 1967 in the Army Reserve as Headquarters, 4th Brigade, 84th Division (Training). Activated 31 January 1968 at Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Inactivated 15 September 1995 at Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Activated 16 November 1996 at Indianapolis, Indiana.
