Headquarters
157th Infantry Brigade
Lineage and Honors Information as of 24 April 2007
Headquarters, 157th Infantry Brigade Lineage
Constituted 5 August 1917 in the National Army as Headquarters, 158th Infantry Brigade, and assigned to the 79th Division
Organized 25 August 1917 at Camp Meade, Maryland
Demobilized 7 June 1919 at Camp Dix, New Jersey
Reconstituted 24 June 1921 in the Organized Reserves as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 157th Infantry Brigade, and assigned to the 79th Division
Organized in November 1921 at Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania
Redesignated 23 March 1925 as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 157th Brigade
Redesignated 24 August 1936 as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 157th Infantry Brigade
Converted and redesignated 12 February 1942 as the 79th Reconnaissance Troop (less 3d Platoon), 79th Division (Headquarters and
Headquarters Company, 158th Infantry Brigade, concurrently converted and redesignated as the 3d Platoon, 79th Reconnaissance
Troop, 79th Division)
Troop ordered into active military service 15 June 1942 and reorganized at Camp Pickett, Virginia, as the 79th Cavalry
Reconnaissance Troop, an element of the 79th Division (later redesignated as the 79th Infantry Division)
Reorganized and redesignated 2 August 1943 as the 79th Reconnaissance Troop, Mechanized
Inactivated 11 December 1945 at Camp Kilmer, New Jersey
Activated 28 January 1947 at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, as the 79th Mechanized Cavalry Reconnaissance Troop
(Organized Reserves redesignated 25 March 1948 as the Organized Reserve Corps; redesignated 9 July 1952 as the Army Reserve)
Reorganized and redesignated 15 July 1949 as the 79th Reconnaissance Company
Inactivated 20 April 1959 at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Converted and redesignated (less 3d Platoon) 5 November 1962 as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 157th Infantry Brigade,
and relieved from assignment to the 79th Infantry Division (3d Platoon, 79th Reconnaissance Company, concurrently redesignated as
Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 158th Infantry Brigade - hereafter separate lineage)
Brigade activated 7 January 1963 at Upper Darby, Pennsylvania
Location changed 31 January 1968 to Horsham, Pennsylvania
Inactivated 1 September 1995 at Horsham, Pennsylvania
Withdrawn 24 October 1997 from the Army Reserve and allotted to the Regular Army; Headquarters concurrently activated at Fort
Jackson, South Carolina
Inactivated 16 October 1999 at Fort Jackson, South Carolina
Activated 1 December 2006 at Fort Jackson, South Carolina
Headquarters, 157th Infantry Brigade Honors
Campaign Participation Credit
World War I: Meuse-Argonne, Lorraine 1918
World War II: Normandy, Northern France, Rhineland, Ardennes-Alsace, Central Europe
Decorations
French Croix de Guerre with Palm, World War II, Streamer embroidered PARROY FOREST
French Croix de Guerre with Palm, World War II, Streamer embroidered NORMANDY TO PARIS
French Croix de Guerre, World War II, Fourragere