Lineage and Honors Information as of 17 Mar 2020

Headquarters
177th Armored Brigade

  • Constituted 5 August 1917 in the National Army as Headquarters, 177th Infantry Brigade, and assigned to the 89th Division
  • Organized 27 August 1917 at Camp Funston, Kansas
  • Demobilized 1 June 1919 at Camp Funston, Kansas
  • Reconstituted 24 June 1921 in the Organized Reserves as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 177th Infantry Brigade, and assigned to the 89th Division
  • Organized 20 March 1922 at La Harpe, Kansas
  • Redesignated 23 March 1925 as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 177th Brigade
  • Redesignated 24 August 1936 as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 177th Infantry Brigade
  • Converted and redesignated 22 February 1942 as the 89th Reconnaissance Troop, 89th Division (less 3d Platoon) (Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 178th Infantry Brigade, concurrently converted and redesignated as the 3d Platoon, 89th Reconnaissance Troop, 89th Division)
  • Ordered into active military service 15 July 1942 and reorganized at Camp Carson, Colorado, as the 89th Cavalry Reconnaissance Troop, and element of the 89th Division (later redesignated as the 89th Light Division)
  • Reorganized and redesignated 15 September 1943 as Troop A, 4th Reconnaissance Squadron, and relieved from assignment to the 89th Light Division
  • Reorganized and redesignated 8 December 1943 as Troop A, 34th Reconnaissance Squadron, Mechanized
  • Reorganized and redesignated 5 January 1944 as Troop A, 34th Cavalry Reconnaissance Squadron, Mechanized
  • Inactivated 3 March 1945 at Fort Riley, Kansas
  • Disbanded 23 April 1953
  • Reconstituted 16 October 1991 in the Regular Army (less 3d Platoon) as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 177th Armored Brigade, and activated at Fort Irwin, California (3d Platoon, Troop A, 34th Cavalry Reconnaissance Squadron, Mechanized – hereafter separate lineage)
  • Inactivated 15 October 1994 at Fort Irwin, California
  • Headquarters activated 24 October 1997 at Camp Shelby, Mississippi
  • Inactivated 16 October 1999 at Camp Shelby, Mississippi
  • Headquarters activated 1 December 2006 at Camp Shelby, Mississippi

Campaign Participation Credit

  • World War I
  • St. Mihiel
  • Meuse-Argonne
  • Lorraine 1918

Decorations

  • Army Superior Unit Award, Streamer embroidered 2008-2011

By Order of the Secretary of the Army:

CHARLES R. BOWERY, JR.
Chief of Military History

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