Headquarters
188th Infantry Brigade
Lineage and Honors Information as of 25 April 2007
Headquarters, 188th Infantry Brigade Lineage
Constituted 24 June 1921 in the Organized Reserves as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 188th Infantry Brigade, and assigned to the 94th Division
Organized in December 1921 at Boston, Massachusetts
Redesignated 23 March 1925 as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 188th Brigade
Location changed in 1925 to Worcester, Massachusetts
Redesignated 24 August 1936 as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 188th Infantry Brigade
Location changed in 1940 to Springfield, Massachusetts
Converted and redesignated 12 February 1942 as the 3d Platoon, 94th Reconnaissance Troop, 94th Division (Headquarters and
Headquarters Company, 187th Infantry Brigade, concurrently converted and redesignated as the 94th Reconnaissance Troop [less 3d
Platoon], 94th Division)
Troop ordered into active military service 15 September 1942 and reorganized at Camp Custer, Michigan, as the 94th Cavalry
Reconnaissance Troop, an element of the 94th Infantry Division
Reorganized and redesignated 14 August 1943 as the 94th Reconnaissance Troop, Mechanized
Inactivated 7 February 1946 at Camp Kilmer, New Jersey
Redesignated 6 February 1947 as the 94th Mechanized Cavalry Reconnaissance Troop
Activated 13 February 1947 at Boston, Massachusetts
(Organized Reserves redesignated 25 March 1948 as the Organized Reserve Corps; redesignated 9 July 1952 as the Army Reserve)
Reorganized and redesignated 21 February 1949 as the 94th Reconnaissance Company
Location changed 20 March 1953 to Cohasset, Massachusetts
Inactivated 1 May 1959 at Cohasset, Massachusetts
3d Platoon, 94th Reconnaissance Company, converted and redesignated 5 November 1962 as Headquarters and Headquarters Company,
188th Infantry Brigade, and relieved from assignment to the 94th Infantry Division (remainder of company concurrently
redesignated as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 187th Infantry Brigade - hereafter separate lineage)
Withdrawn 24 October 1997 from the Army Reserve and allotted to the Regular Army; Headquarters concurrently activated at Fort
Stewart, Georgia
Inactivated 16 October 1999 at Fort Stewart, Georgia
Headquarters activated 1 December 2006 at Fort Stewart, Georgia
Headquarters, 188th Infantry Brigade Honors
Campaign Participation Credit
World War II: Northern France, Rhineland, Ardennes-Alsace, Central Europe
Decorations
None