The 80th Training Command (The Army School System - TASS) is a formation of the United States Army Reserve. The unit was first organized in August 1917 and activated the following September during World War I as the 80th Division. During World War II, the Division was redesignated on 1 August 1942, as the 80th Infantry Division. Nicknamed the "Blue Ridge Division", it was initially composed of draftees from the mid-atlantic states of Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and West Virginia. The Division was redesignated the 80th Airborne Division from December 1946 to May 1952. In May 1952 and March 1959, the unit was redesignated as a reserve infantry division and then a reserve training division. In 1994, the unit was granted the designation, 80th Division (Institutional Training). On 1 October 2008, the unit underwent a major transformation and is now the 80th Training Command. World War I Activated: September 1917 Overseas: June 1918 Major operations: Battle of the Somme (1918), Meuse-Argonne, Battle of Saint-Mihiel. Casualties: Total-6,029. (KIA-880; WIA-5,149). Commanders: Brig. Gen. Herman Hall (27 August 1917), Maj. Gen. Adelbert Cronkhite (9 September 1917), Brig. Gen. L. M. Brett (26 November 1917), Brig. Gen. W. P. Richardson (28 December 1917), Brig. Gen. Charles S. Farnsworth (7 January 1918), Brig. Gen. L. M. Brett (14 January 1918), Maj. Gen. Adelbert Cronkhite (1 March 1918), Maj. Gen. S. D. Sturgis (22 November 1918). Inactivated: May 1919. History Because of significant common heritage in the past (Indian War, Revolutionary War and Civil War), residents of Pennsylvania, Virginia and West Virginia became the structure of the 80th Division. The 80th Division was organized in August 1917 at Camp Lee, Virginia. The units were made up mostly of men from the above three states. Order of battle Headquarters, 80th Division 159th Infantry Brigade 317th Infantry Regiment 318th Infantry Regiment 313th Machine Gun Battalion 160th Infantry Brigade 319th Infantry Regiment 320th Infantry Regiment 315th Machine Gun Battalion 155th Field Artillery Brigade 313th Field Artillery Regiment (75 mm) 314th Field Artillery Regiment (75 mm) 315th Field Artillery Regiment (155 mm) 305th Trench Mortar Battery 314th Machine Gun Battalion 305th Engineer Regiment 305th Field Signal Battalion Headquarters Troop, 80th Division 305th Train Headquarters and Military Police 305th Ammunition Train 305th Supply Train 305th Engineer Train 305th Sanitary Train 317th, 318th, 319th, and 320th Ambulance Companies and Field Hospitals The 317th Infantry included men from central and western Virginia; the 318th