[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.

In 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.

[4] 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.