An Army Reserve unit based at Fort Devens, Massachusetts, the 804th Medical Brigade is a major subordinate operational unit of the Army Reserve’s 3rd Medical Command. The lineage of the Brigade goes back to October 1944 and the constitution in the Army of the United States of the 804th Medical Service Detachment; it was activated the next month in England, and served in the European Theater of Operations during World War II.
Inactivated in January 1946, the unit was redesignated as the 804th Hospital Center in October 1947, allocated to the Organized Reserves Corps assigned to Fifth Army, and activated in January 1948 in St. Paul, Minnesota. It was withdrawn from assignment to Fifth Army and assigned to the First Army in July 1952 before being reassigned to Boston Army Base the following month. Following two-months’ assignment to HQ, XIII Corps beginning in April 1968, the unit was reassigned to U.S. Army Reserve Command in June. It received its current designation when it was reorganized and redesignated as the 804th Medical Brigade on 16 September 1993; the next year it was relocated to its current location at Fort Devens, Massachusetts.
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