[1] As the Army withdrew from Vietnam and reduced its forces, the 24th Infantry Division and its three brigades were inactivated on 15 April 1970 at Fort Riley.

[4] On 21 September 1975, the 24th Infantry Division was activated at Fort Stewart, Georgia, as part of the program to build a sixteen-division force.

Some controversy erupted when the division's round-out unit, the 48th Infantry Brigade, was found to be unprepared for deployment.

[5] It then moved east with VII Corps, engaging several Iraqi Republican Guard divisions.

[1] In the fall of 1994 Iraq again menaced the Kuwaiti border, and two brigades from the division returned to Southwest Asia.