94th Training Division
| 94th Training Division (Force Sustainment) | |
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94th Infantry Division shoulder sleeve insignia | |
| Active | 1918 1921–1946 1956–present |
| Country | United States |
| Branch | United States Army |
| Type | Infantry |
| Size | Division |
| Garrison/HQ | Fort Lee |
| Nicknames | "Pilgrim Division" "Neuf Quatres" "Patton's Golden Nugget" |
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| Commanders | |
| Current commander | BG Christopher Niewind |
| Command Sergeant Major | CSM Timothy L. Eddy |
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The 94th Training Division (Force Sustainment) is a unit of the United States Army Reserve, charged with providing sustainment training throughout the United States. The division is based at Fort Lee, Virginia and is subordinate to the 80th Training Command. The division has subordinate brigades that perform military occupational specialty (MOS) reclassification training. The division has brigades in the Continental United States.
The division traces its history to the activation of the 94th Division in 1918, which was disbanded with the close of World War I, but reformed in the Organized Reserve from 1921 until 1942. It fought in World War II, was reformed in the now-United States Army Reserve in 1956, and remained an infantry division until 1963. In 1963 it was reduced to the 94th Command Headquarters (Divisional) until the Army's realignment of reserve component combat arms into the Army National Guard in 1967. From 1968 to 1995 it supervised smaller Army Reserve units as an Army Reserve Command (ARCOM). In 1995 it became a Regional Support Command and in 2003 a Regional Readiness Command. It was then inactivated, but reformed as a training division in August 2009. The 94th Infantry Division's standard (flag) and lineage was bestowed upon the 94th Division (Force Sustainment) at its activation in 2009.
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The 94th ARCOM/RSC/RRC wore the shoulder sleeve insignia of the 94th Infantry Division but did not, according to the United States Army Center of Military History, perpetuate the lineage of the old division and was thus not entitled to the division's battle honors, as it is against Army policy for TDA organizations, such as ARCOMs, RSCs and RRCs, to perpetuate the lineage of TO&E units, such as infantry divisions. Army Regulation 840-10 dictates that the distinguishing flag of an RRC features a white-bordered, 38.1 cm (15 in.) tall rendering of the shoulder sleeve insignia on a plain blue background, rather than on the horizontally divided bi-colour background of red over blue as carried by an infantry division.
Although the 94th RRC did not carry the lineage of the 94th Infantry Division, today's 94th Military Police Company (formerly under the 94th RRC) carries the lineage of the World War II Military Police Platoon, 94th Infantry Division. The 94th Military Police Company also served in Desert Storm, Bosnia, and most recently Iraq. In 2003-04 the 94th MPs added a battle streamer to their guidon when they were awarded the Valorous Unit Award for their actions in al-Anbar, hunting Iraqi Ba'ath members after the collapse of government and conducting Counter-Insurgency Operations against the increasing militant uprisings in Al-Qaim, Rutbah, Haditha, Baghdad, Ramadi and Fallujah. The 94th MPs were also awarded The "Order of the Spur" by Colonel Teeples of the 3d Armored Cavalry Regiment (3CR), as a nod to the combat action of the 94th Military Police Company during their mission with the 3d Cavalry Regiment. The history and spirit of the Military Police Platoon, 94th Infantry Division of World War II lives on with them.