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7th Brigade, 80th Division (Institutional Training)

The 1/319th Reception Battalion is a major subordinate unit of an Army Training Center (ATC). Our unit is an Army personnel service support activity that establishes the records and captures information essential for linking soldier records with automated support systems. Upon completion of processing, Initial Entry Training (IET) and prior service soldiers are shipped to basic training or One Station Unit Training (OSUT). Upon full or partial mobilization, the 1/319th Reception Battalion will move to Fort Gordon, Georgia, and during annual training to Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri. it has the functional responsibility to process qualified accessions for assignment to IET and OSUT.

The 7th Brigade, 80th Division (Training) was constituted 5 August 1917 in the National Army as the 305th Supply Train and assigned to the 80th Division. Organized 29 January 1918 at Camp Lee, Virginia Demobilized 6 June 1919 at Camp Dix, New Jersey.

Reconstituted 21 September 1936 in the Organized Reserves; concurrently consolidated with the 405th Quartermaster Regiment (organized in December 1921 in the Organized Reserves with Headquarters at Richmond, Virginia, as the 80th Division Train, Quartermaster Corps; redesignated 23 March 1925 as the 80th Division Quartermaster Train; redesignated 1 July 1936 as the 405th Quartermaster Regiment) and consolidated unit designated as the 405th Quartermaster Regiment, an element of the 80th Division (later redesignated as the 80th Infantry Division). Redesignated 12 February 1942 as the 405th Quartermaster Battalion.

Ordered into active military service 15 July 1942 and reorganized at Camp Forrest, Tennessee Reorganized and redesignated (less Ordnance Maintenance Platoon, Headquarters Company) 16 November 1942 as the 80th Quartermaster Company (Ordnance Maintenance Platoon, Headquarters Company--hereafter separate lineage). Inactivated 5 January 1946 at Camp Kilmer, New Jersey.

Redesignated 15 July 1946 as the 80th Airborne Quartermaster Company (80th Infantry Division concurrently redesignated as the 80th Airborne Division). Activated 12 March 1947 at Richmond, Virginia. Organized Reserves redesignated 25 March 1948 as the Organized Reserve Corps; redesignated 9 July 1952 as the Army Reserve. Reorganized and redesignated 10 May 1952 as the 80th Quartermaster Company (80th Airborne Division concurrently redesignated as the 80th Infantry Division). Disbanded 23 March 1959 at Richmond, Virginia.

Reconstituted 24 November 1967 in the Army Reserve as the 80th Committee Group and assigned to the 80th Division (Training). Activated 30 January 1968 at Richmond, Virginia. Reorganized and redesignated 1 April 1971 as Headquarters, 80th Committee Group. Location changed 1 August 1973 to Salem, Virginia. Reorganized and redesignated 1 October 1978 as Headquarters, 80th Training Command. Inactivated 17 October 1984 at Salem, Virginia.

Redesignated 16 November 1996 as Headquarters, 7th Brigade, 80th Division (Training), and activated at Salem, Virginia.