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3rd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Infantry Division (United States)

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Active
  
1963 – 2014

Branch
  
United States Army

Size
  
Brigade

Country
  
United States

Type
  
Infantry

Garrison/HQ
  
Fort Knox


The 3rd Infantry Brigade Combat Team was an infantry brigade based at Fort Knox, Kentucky. The brigade was a subordinate unit of 1st Infantry Division.

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History

[1]

  • Constituted 24 May 1917 in the Regular Army as Headquarters Troop, 1st Expeditionary Division
  • Organized 8 June 1917 at New York, New York
  • Reorganized and redesignated 6 July 1917 as Headquarters Troop, 1st Division
  • Reorganized and redesignated 13 February 1921 as Headquarters and Military Police Company (less Military Police Platoon), 1st Division
  • Reorganized and redesignated 1 August 1942 as Headquarters Company, 1st Infantry Division
  • Disbanded 20 April 1960 at Fort Riley, Kansas
  • Reconstituted 23 October 1963 in the Regular Army as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 3d Brigade, 1st Infantry Division
  • Activated 2 January 1964 at Fort Riley, Kansas
  • Redesignated 21 July 1975 as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 1st Infantry Division Forward
  • Inactivated 15 August 1991 in Germany
  • Redesignated 16 February 1996 as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 3d Brigade, 1st Infantry Division, and activated in Germany
  • Headquarters, 3d Brigade, 1st Infantry Division, reorganized and redesignated 16 April 2007 as Headquarters, 3d Brigade Combat Team, 1st Infantry Division (Headquarters Company, 3d Brigade, 1st Infantry Division – hereafter separate lineage)
  • Inactivation Ceremony at Fort Knox, KY - May 21, 2014 [2]

    • Organization

    The unit is composed of:

  • Headquarters & Headquarters Company ("Hellfighters")
  • Special Troops Battalion ("Valiant Warrior")[3]
  • 2nd Battalion, 2nd Infantry Regiment ("Ramrods")
  • 1st Battalion, 26th Infantry Regiment ("Blue Spaders")
  • 6th Squadron, 4th Cavalry Regiment ("Raiders")
  • 1st Battalion, 6th Field Artillery Regiment ("Centaurs")
  • 201st Brigade Support Battalion ("Thor")

    • References

    3rd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Infantry Division (United States) Wikipedia
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