7th Brigade, 104th Division
The mission of the 7th Brigade is to provide proficient, professional, and exemplary instruction to soldiers, both USAR and AR, throughout the western and norwestern United States; provide a mobile, full service transition point, offering seamless soldier processing services to Fort Bliss; and to plan, coordinate and provide command and control in support of the annual senior ROTC Advance camp.
The 7th Brigade (Training Support) is part of the 104th Division (Institutional Training) located at Vancouver Barracks, Vancouver, Washington. It has three distinct Battalions. The 3rd Battalion, 414th Regiment (Fort Lewis, WA) - provides support for the nations only annual ROTC summer camp held at Fort Lewis. The 1st Battalion, 413th Regiment (Vancouver Barracks, WA) - provides support to the Division's Total Army School Brigades in the 13 Western states. The 3rd Battalion, 413th Regiment (Pasadena, CA) - provides Reception Station support to the Active Army at Fort Jackson, SC, Fort Bliss, TX and Fort Sill, OK.
The unit was constituted 24 June 1921 in the Organized Reserves as the 104th Division Train, Quartermaster Corps. Organized in September 1922 with Headquarters at Salt Lake City, Utah. Redesignated 23 March 1925 as the 104th Division Quartermaster Train.
The unit was later redesignated 1 July 1936 as the 429th Quartermaster Regiment and remained assigned to the 104th Division (later redesignated as the 104th Infantry Division). Redesignated 6 April 1942 as the 429th Quartermaster Battalion. Ordered into active military service 15 September 1942 and reorganized at Camp Adair, Oregon. Reorganized and redesignated (less Ordnance Maintenance Platoon, Headquarters Company) 27 September 1942 as the 104th Quartermaster Company, an element of the 104th Infantry Division (Ordnance Maintenance Platoon, Headquarters Company-hereafter separate lineage). 104th Quartermaster Company inactivated 18 December 1945 at Camp San Luis Obispo, California. Activated 16 June 1947 at Vancouver, Washington. (Organized Reserves redesignated 25 March 1948 as the Organized Reserve Corps; redesignated 9 July 1952 as the Army Reserve.) Location changed 16 March 1949 to Pasco, Washington. Inactivated 10 June 1959 at Pasco, Washington. Disbanded 11 June 1959.
The unit was reconstituted 24 November 1967 in the Army Reserve as the 104th Committee Group and assigned to the 104th Division (Training). Activated 10 January 1968 at Vancouver, Washington. Reorganized and redesignated 1 April 1971 as Headquarters, 104th Committee Group. Reorganized and redesignated 16 October 1978 as Headquarters, 104th Training Command. Inactivated 16 October 1984 at Vancouver, Washington.
It was finally redesignated 16 November 1996 as Headquarters, 7th Brigade, 104th Division (Training), and activated at Fort Lewis, Washington.
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