5th Brigade, 87th Division (Training Support)
Terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon on September 11, set off a chain of events that impacted the entire world. For the soldiers of the 87th Division's 5th Training Support Brigade at Fort Jackson, it became business as usual when they were called on to mobilize South Carolina National Guardsmen under First U.S. Army's direction.
Fifth Brigade's mission is to ensure that the 230 National Guard infantry soldiers from two mobilized units in Summerville and Monckscorner, S.C., are prepared for their new active duty life and their new mission of Homeland Security. The South Carolina citizen soldiers from the 1-118th Infantry Brigade received mobilization orders in early October 2001 for at least one year of active duty service in response to increased security requirements on military installations, such as Fort Jackson and Fort Gordon, Ga.
This unique mission has required a different type of mobilization and validation process than the normal mobilization associated with an overseas deployment. In order to guarantee the National Guard unit's success, the 5th Brigade assigned full-time trainers to assist the mobilized units down to the platoon level. Each training support assister will teach, demonstrate, rehearse, observe and assess the soldiers on everything from conducting proper promo-tion ceremonies to preparing training schedules. The assisters also make maximum use of After Action Reports to learn new ways of conducting better training.
5th Brigade, 87th Division (Training Support) was constituted 5 August 1917 in the National Army as the 312th Supply Train and assigned to the 87th Division. Organized in September 1917 at Camp Pike, Arkansas. Demobilized 31 July 1919 at Camp Grant, Illinois.
Reconstituted 21 September 1936 in the Organized Reserves; concurrently consolidated with the 412th Quartermaster Regiment (organized in January 1922 in the Organized Reserves as the 87th Division Train, Quartermaster Corps, with Headquarters at New Orleans, Louisiana; redesignated 23 March 1925 as the 87th Division Quartermaster Train; redesignated 1 July 1936 as the 412th Quartermaster Regiment) and consolidated unit designated as the 412th Quartermaster Regiment, an element of the 87th Division (later redesignated as the 87th Infantry Division). Reorganized and redesignated 30 January 1942 as the 412th Quartermaster Battalion.
Ordered into active military service 15 December 1942 and reorganized at Camp McCain, Mississippi Reorganized and redesignated (less Ordnance Maintenance Platoon, Headquarters Company) 27 September 1942 as the 87th Quartermaster Company, an element of the 87th Infantry Division (Ordnance Maintenance Platoon, Headquarters Company). Inactivated 21 September 1945 at Fort Benning, Georgia
Activated 1 March 1947 at Birmingham, Alabama (location later changed to Enterprise, Alabama) Organized Reserves redesignated 25 March 1948 as the Organized Reserve Corps; redesignated 9 July 1952 as the Army Reserve. Inactivated 31 March 1955 at Enterprise, Alabama.
Redesignated 17 October 1999 as Headquarters, 5th Brigade, 87th Division (Training Support), allotted to the Regular Army, and activated at Fort Jackson, South Carolina
