conglomerations of unrelated units. Upon mobilization, units within the ARCOMs would be assigned to active duty units with which they were aligned.) The 89th ARCOM was later redesignated as the 89th Regional Support Command, and in 2003 it became the 89th Regional Readiness Command. In its 2005 BRAC recommendations, United States Department of Defense recommended realigning the Wichita US Army Reserve Center by disestablishing the 89th Regional Readiness Command. This recommendation was part of a larger recommendation to re-engineer and streamline the command and control structure of the Army Reserves that would create the Northwest Regional Readiness Command at Fort McCoy, Wisconsin. The 89th currently exists as the 89th Sustainment Brigade in the Reserve. Combat Record (World War II) Ordered into active service: 5 July 1942 at Camp Carson, Colorado Overseas: 10 January 1945. Campaigns: Rhineland, Central Europe Days of Combat: 57 Entered Combat: 12 March 1945 Killed in Action: 292 Total Casualties: 1,029 Awards: DSM-1 ; SS-46; LM-5; SM-1 ; BSM-135 ; AM-17. Commanders:Maj. Gen. William H. Gill (July 1942-February 1943),Maj. Gen. Thomas D. Finley (February 1943 to inactivation). Returned to United States: 16 December 1945. Inactivated: 27 December 1945 at Camp Shanks, New York. See also Charles Denver Barger - Medal of Honor recipient David B. Barkley - Medal of Honor recipient Marcellus H. Chiles - Medal of Honor recipient M. Waldo Hatler - Medal of Honor recipient J. Hunter Wickersham - Medal of Honor recipient Jesse N. Funk - Medal of Honor recipient Harold A. Furlong – Medal of Honor recipient Charles E. Kilbourne - Medal of Honor and Distinguished Service Cross recipient who served as the 89th Division's chief of staff in World War I Charles T. Payne - (great-uncle of Barack Obama, the 44th President of the United States) Marcelino Serna - the most decorated soldier from Texas in World War I. Ferdinand Louis Schlemmer – Division camouflage officer in World War I and noted artist in civilian life. Maurice Rose - future commander of the 3rd Armored Division during World War II who served with the 89th Division during World War I John C. H. Lee - future lieutenant general who served as aide-de-camp to Major General Leonard Wood at Ft. Riley, then as 89th Div. Chief of Staff in the AEF under MG Winn, and the youngest full-colonel in WWI. Footnotes Bibliography 89th Infantry Division website: http://www.89infdivww2.org/index.htm.The Army Almanac: A Book of Facts