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194th Armored Brigade

Lineage and Honors Information as of 15 November 2007

Headquarters, 194th Armored Brigade Lineage

Constituted 24 June 1921 in the Organized Reserves as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 194th Infantry Brigade, and assigned to the 97th Division

Organized in June 1922 at Concord, New Hampshire

Redesignated 23 March 1925 as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 194th Brigade

Redesignated 24 August 1936 as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 194th Infantry Brigade

Converted and redesignated 12 February 1942 as the 3d Platoon, 97th Reconnaissance Troop, 97th Division (Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 193d Infantry Brigade, concurrently converted and redesignated as the 97th Reconnaissance Troop, [less 3d Platoon], 97th Division)

Troop ordered into active military service 25 February 1943 and reorganized at Camp Swift, Texas, as the 97th Cavalry Reconnaissance Troop, an element of the 97th Infantry Division

Reorganized and redesignated 1 August 1943 as the 97th Reconnaissance Troop, Mechanized

Reorganized and redesignated 15 October 1945 as the 97th Mechanized Cavalry Reconnaissance Troop

Inactivated 31 March 1946 in Japan

(Organized Reserves redesignated 25 March 1948 as the Organized Reserve Corps; redesignated 9 July 1952 as the Army Reserve)

3d Platoon, 97th Mechanized Cavalry Reconnaissance Troop converted and redesignated 15 July 1962 as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 194th Infantry Brigade, and relieved from assignment to the 97th Infantry Division; concurrently withdrawn from the Army Reserve and allotted to the Regular Army (remainder of troop concurrently converted and redesignated as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 193d Infantry Brigade -- hereafter separate lineage)

Converted and redesignated 1 October 1962 as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 194th Armored Brigade

Activated 21 December 1962 at Fort Ord, California

Inactivated 29 June 1995 at Fort Knox, Kentucky

Transferred 9 November 2006 to the United States Army Training and Doctrine Command

Headquarters activated 10 July 2007 at Fort Knox, Kentucky

Headquarters, 194th Armored Brigade Honors

Campaign Participation Credit

World War II: Central Europe

Decorations

None


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