Headquarters
197th Infantry Brigade
(Follow Me)
Lineage and Honors Information as of 20 November 2007
Headquarters, 197th Infantry Brigade Lineage
Constituted 24 June 1921 in the Organized Reserves as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 197th Infantry Brigade, and assigned to the 99th Division
Organized in November 1921 at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Redesignated 23 March 1925 as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 197th Brigade
Redesignated 24 August 1936 as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 197th Infantry Brigade
Converted and redesignated 12 February 1942 as the 99th Reconnaissance Troop (less 3d Platoon), 99th Division (Headquarters and
Headquarters Company, 198th Infantry Brigade, concurrently converted and redesignated as the 3d Platoon, 99th Reconnaissance
Troop, 99th Division)
Troop ordered into active military service 15 November 1942 and reorganized at Camp Van Dorn, Mississippi, as the 99th Cavalry
Reconnaissance Troop, an element of the 99th Infantry Division
Reorganized and redesignated 2 August 1943 as the 99th Reconnaissance Troop, Mechanized
Inactivated 29 September 1945 at Camp Myles Standish, Massachusetts
(Organized Reserves redesignated 25 March 1948 as the Organized Reserve Corps; redesignated 9 July 1952 as the Army Reserve)
Converted and redesignated (less 3d Platoon) 1 August 1962 as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 197th Infantry Brigade, and
relieved from assignment to the 99th Infantry Division; concurrently withdrawn from the Army Reserve and allotted to the Regular
Army (3d Platoon, 99th Reconnaissance Troop, Mechanized, concurrently redesignated as Headquarters and Headquarters Company,
198th Infantry Brigade - hereafter separate lineage)
Activated 24 September 1962 at Fort Benning, Georgia
Inactivated 16 August 1991 at Fort Benning, Georgia
Transferred 9 November 2006 to the United States Army Training and Doctrine Command
Headquarters activated 18 July 2007 at Fort Benning, Georgia
Headquarters, 197th Infantry Brigade Honors
Campaign Participation Credit
World War II: Rhineland, Ardennes-Alsace, Central Europe
Southwest Asia: Defense of Saudia Arabia, Liberation and Defense of Kuwait
Decorations
Belgian Fourragere 1940
Cited in the Order of the Day of the Belgian Army for action at the SIEGFRIED LINE
Cited in the Order of the Day of the Belgian Army for action at ELSENBORN CREST
Cited in the Order of the Day of the Belgian Army for action in the ARDENNES