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It was 1994, as a result of the so-called "offsite agreement" among VCS Bin Peay and the chiefs of the Army Reserve and National GUard. It was to shift all RC combat arms to the National Guard and was supposed to move most CS/CSS to the Army Reserve. Of course, the National Guard reneged on the agreement almost immediately when various governors realized they might lose their medical, MP, aviation and transportation units most useful to their state missions like disaster relief.
I served in SIGDET, 1-11 SFG(A), and in HHC, 11th SFG(A), both at Ft. Meade, in the early 1990s. Since I was living in Washington, I went to the Congressional hearings where we argued against the agreement, but were told it was a fait accompli (which apparently no one bothered to tell the National Guard Bureau). I was in OCS in the Summer of 1994 when the deactivations occurred.
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