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1st Brigade (Infantry Training), 84th Division (Institutional Training)

In 2004, the 84th Division (Institutional Training) underwent a major transformation. As a result, all 8 of the Division's brigades were inactivated and reflagged as elements of the 100th Division.

The 1st Brigade (Infantry Training), 84th Division (Institutional Training), headquartered in Livonia, Michigan was the Fort Benning, Georgia's Infantry Training Brigade's Army Reserve partner in training. Their Drill Sergeants had 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 provided Battalion and Brigade displacements to help support the Infantry Training Brigade mission. In turn, the Infantry Training Brigade received, integrated, trained, and evaluated 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, Georgia to endure the rigorous process that would turn them into infantrymen, it was often Army Reserve drill sergeants from 1st Brigade, 84th Division, who were there to help them succeed. The Reserve soldiers spent 2 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 was first constituted on 5 August 1917 in the National Army as Headquarters Troop, 84th Division and organized in September 1917 at Camp Zachary Taylor, Kentucky. The 84th Division traveled to Europe as part of the American contribution to World War I, but was used to provide replacements to the front rather than act as maneuver unit. The unit recieved a campaign streamer without inscription for its participation in the conflict. The unit was subsequently demobilized in November 1918 in France.

The unit was reconstituted on 24 June 1921 in the Organized Reserves as Headquarters Company, 84th Division and organized in July 1922 at Indianapolis, Indiana. It was redesignated on 23 February 1942 as Headquarters and Military Police Company (less Military Police Platoon), 84th Division. The unit was ordered into active military service on 15 October 1942 and reorganized at Camp Howze, Texas, as Headquarters Company, 84th Infantry Division. The unit served with the 84th Infantry Division served in 3 campaigns during the Second World War: Rhineland, Ardennes-Alsace, and Central Europe. The unit was inactivated on 21 January 1946 at Camp Kilmer, New Jersey.

The unit was redesignated on 19 December 1946 as Headquarters Company, 84th Airborne Division and was activated on 19 May 1947 at Madison, Wisconsin. The Organized Reserves was redesignated on 25 March 1948 as the Organized Reserve Corps, which was in turn redesignated on 9 July 1952 as the Army Reserve. The 84th Airborne Division remained assigned to these new entities.

The unit was reorganized and redesignated on 1 March 1952 as Headquarters Company, 84th Infantry Division and its location was changed 20 August 1957 to Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The unit was disbanded on 15 May 1959 at Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

The unit was reconstituted on 24 November 1967 in the Army Reserve as Headquarters, 1st Brigade, 84th Division (Training) and activated on 31 January 1968 at Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

The Brigade's location was changed on 16 September 1993 to Waukegan, Illinois and again on 16 November 1996 to Livonia, Michigan.