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4th Brigade (Combat Service Support), 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.

4th Brigade (Combat Service Support), 84th Division (Institutional Training) was headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana. Its mission was to provide instruction in combat service support subjects like transportation, ordnance, quartermaster, and personnel services. The 4th Brigade served as the headquarters for 4 battalions that performed institutional training in several states throughout the Midwest. These battalions were headquartered in Ohio, Illinois, and Wisconsin and support Military Occupation Specialty (MOS) training in Personnel, Quartermaster, Transportation, and Ordnance. The mission of the 4th Brigade was to conduct Combat Service Support MOS Qualification training (IDT and AT) in support of Total Army in Region E, as well as additional missions as assigned by higher command. This training encompassed those MOS's in the Personnel Services, Transportation, Quartermaster, and Ordnance CMFs.

The 4th Brigade, 84th Division was first constituted on 5 August 1917 in the National Army as the 309th Supply Train and assigned to the 84th Division. It was organized on 7 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 between June and July 1919 at Camp Sherman, Ohio.

The unit was reconstituted on 21 September 1936 in the Organized Reserves. It was concurrently consolidated with the 409th Quartermaster Regiment which had been first organized in November 1921 in the Organized Reserves as the 84th Division Train, Quartermaster Corps, with Headquarters at Indianapolis, Indiana. The 409th Quartermaster Regiment had been redesignated on 23 March 1925 as the 84th Division Quartermaster Train and again on 1 July 1936 as the 409th Quartermaster Regiment, before being consolidated with the 309th Supply Train. The consolidated unit was designated as the 409th Quartermaster Regiment, an element of the 84th Division.

The unit was redesignated on 23 February 1942 as the 409th Quartermaster Battalion. The Ordnance Maintenance Platoon, Headquarters Company, 409th Quartermaster Battalion was redesignated on 18 September 1942 as the 784th Ordnance Company, an element of the 84th Infantry Division, with the remainder of the battalion thereafter having a separate lineage. The unit was ordered into active military service on 15 October 1942 and reorganized at Camp Howze, Texas. The 784th Ordnance Company served 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 22 January 1946 at Camp Kilmer, New Jersey.

The unit was redesignated on 19 December 1946 as the 784th Airborne Ordnance Maintenance Company and assigned to the 84th Airborne Division with the redesignation of the 84th Infantry Division as the 84th Airborne Division. The Company was activated on 7 April 1947 at Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The Organized Reserves was redesignated on 25 March 1948 as the Organized Reserve Corps, which were redesignated on 9 July 1952 as the Army Reserve. The Company remained assigned to these new entities. The unit was reorganized and redesignated on 1 March 1952 as the 784th Ordnance Maintenance Company with the redesignation of the 84th Airborne Division as the 84th Infantry Division. The unit was reorganized and redesignated on 1 June 1953 as Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment, 784th Ordnance Battalion with its organic elements concurrently constituted and activated. The Battalion was disbanded on 18 May 1959 at Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Headquarters, 784th Ordnance Battalion was reconstituted on 24 November 1967 in the Army Reserve as Headquarters, 4th Brigade, 84th Division (Training) and was activated on 31 January 1968 at Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

The Brigade was inactivated on 15 September 1995 at Milwaukee, Wisconsin, but reactivated on 16 November 1996 at Indianapolis, Indiana.