2nd Brigade (Basic Combat 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.
2nd Brigade (Basic Combat Training), 84th Division (Institutional Training) was headquartered in Beaver Dam, Wisconsin. Its mission was to conduct Basic Combat Training (BCT) for new soldiers in Fort Benning, Georgia.
At Presidential Reserve Call-up (PSRC)/Partial Mobilization, the 2nd Brigade would continue all programmed peacetime training operations, including established brigade responsibilities in support of that training. The Brigade would be prepared to provide elements, as directed, to Fort Benning, Georgia, to support training base expansion associated with the mobilization of Individual Ready Reserve (IRR) Personnel. Specifically, the Brigade would conduct Common Task Training (CTT) refresher, using Mobilization Program of Instruction (MOB POI), for all enlisted IRR personnel in-processed at the installation.
At full mobilization, all scheduled peacetime training programs would be discontinued and replaced with mobilization training programs, using MOB POI. The Brigade would: move all elements, on order, to Fort Benning, Georgia; conduct Basic Combat Training (BCT) at Fort Benning; and be prepared, on order,to provide elements of the Brigade to other US Army Training Command (USATC) sites to conduct BCT using MOB POI. During all levels of mobilization, the Brigade would be prepared to provide uncommitted elements (to include staff assets) to augment un-forecasted mobilization training requirements.
The Mobilization Army Program for individual Training (MOB ARPRINT) detailed projected weekly in-processing and training requirements, by course, for each level of mobilization. The 2nd Brigade would establish and maintain close and continuous peacetime planning coordination with DCSOPS, 84th Division (Institutional Training) regarding the stated mobilization missions.
The 2nd Brigade, 84th Division was first constituted on 5 August 1917 in the National Army as the 309th Ammunition Train and assigned to the 84th Division. The unit was 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 demobilized on 17 February 1919 at Camp Sherman, Ohio.
The unit was reconstituted on 28 October 1936 in the Organized Reserves. It was concurrently consolidated with the 309th Ammunition Train (first organized in November 1921 in the Organized Reserves with Headquarters at Fort Wayne, Indiana) and the consolidated unit was designated as the 309th Ammunition Train, an element of the 84th Division.
The unit was converted and redesignated on 23 February 1942 as the 909th Field Artillery Battalion, and remained assigned to the 84th Division (later redesignated as the 84th Infantry Division). The unit was ordered into active military service on 15 October 1942 and reorganized at Camp Howze, Texas. The unit participated in 3 campaigns of the Second World War with the 84th Infantry Division: Rhineland, Ardennes-Alsace, and Central Europe. After the end of the Second World War, the unit was inactivated on 23 January 1946 at Camp Kilmer, New Jersey.
The unit was redesignated on 19 December 1946 as the 909th Parachute Field Artillery Battalion, with the redesignation of the 84th Infantry Division as the 84th Airborne Division. It was activated on 15 September 1947 with Headquarters at Sheboygan, Wisconsin. The Organized Reserves was redesignated on 25 March 1948 as the Organized Reserve Corps and again on redesignated 9 July 1952 as the Army Reserve. The unit remained assigned to these new entities. The unit was reorganized and redesignated on 29 March 1951 as the 909th Airborne Field Artillery Battalion. It was reorganized and redesignated again on 1 March 1952 as the 909th Field Artillery Battalion with the redesignation of the 84th Airborne Division as the 84th Infantry Division. The unit was disbanded 18 May 1959 at Sheboygan, Wisconsin.
Headquarters, 909th Field Artillery Battalion was reconstituted on 24 November 1967 in the Army Reserve as Headquarters, 2nd Brigade, 84th Division (Training) and activated on 31 January 1968 at Beaver Dam, Wisconsin.
The 84th Division (Institutional Training) did not heading to Kosovo, but unit members spent a weekend in June 2000 preparing others for deployment. Soldiers from 3rd Battalion, 274th Regiment and 3rd Battalion, 334 Regiment, both from the 2nd Brigade (Basic Combat Training) taught basic soldier skills to members of the 432nd Civil Affairs Battalion and Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 308th Civil Affairs Brigade. Sixty 432nd Civil Affairs soldiers were preparing for a deployment to Kosovo. The soldiers departed late summer 2000 and served in Kosovo for approximately 6 months in Operation Joint Guardian. However, in order for the soldiers to fulfill their civil affairs mission, they had to hone their basic soldier skills. This was what the 84th Division soldiers helped the Green Bay, Wisconsin-based unit accomplish. These requirements included qualifying on the M16 rifle or M9 pistol, completing a land-navigation course, passing common task and physical fitness testing, and performing water survival training. The 84th Division soldiers were experts at training these skills. What they did was essentially what they did at BCT (Basic Combat Training). The job of the 84th Division's 2nd Brigade was to teach basic combat skills to new soldiers. In 2000, the Oshkosh-based unit took on that responsibility at Knox and members of 3rd Battalion, 334th Regiment helped them. To complete its mission, the Oshkosh unit provided enough personnel to run a basic training unit for approximately 3 months.
The unit did this by rotating personnel every 17 days. However, when the unit needed help filling positions, it relied on that year's support battalion, the 3rd Battalion, 334th Regiment, which was what it did during the weekend exercise. The company that conducted basic rifle marksmanship training at Fort Knox helped the civil affairs soldiers qualify on their M16s. The soldiers that did the end-of-cycle testing taught common tasks. The prime mission of the 3rd Battalion, 334th Regiment was to provide instruction on basic infantry skills, whether it was in a BCT environment, or during a training exercise. They provided M9 qualification, common-task training, land navigation and assisted the civil affairs unit with water survival training.
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