Lineage and Honors Information as of 8 July 2019

Headquarters
174th Infantry Brigade

  • Constituted 5 August 1917 in the National Army as Headquarters, 174th Infantry Brigade, and assigned to the 87th Division
  • Organized 25 August 1917 at Camp Pike, Arkansas
  • Demobilized in January 1919 at Camp Dix, New Jersey
  • Reconstituted 24 June 1921 in the Organized Reserves as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 174th Infantry Brigade, and assigned to the 87th Division
  • Organized in December 1921 at Shreveport, Louisiana
  • Redesignated 23 March 1925 as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 174th Brigade
  • Redesignated 24 August 1936 as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 174th Infantry Brigade
  • Converted and redesignated 13 February 1942 as the 3d Platoon, 87th Reconnaissance Troop, 87th Division
  • Ordered into active military service 15 December 1942 and reorganized at Camp McCain, Mississippi, as the 3d Platoon, 87th Reconnaissance Troop, an element of the 87th Infantry Division
  • Reorganized and redesignated 2 August 1943 as the 3d Platoon, 87th Reconnaissance Troop, Mechanized
  • Inactivated 21 September 1945 at Fort Benning, Georgia
  • Redesignated 28 April 1947 as the 87th Mechanized Cavalry Reconnaissance Troop
  • Activated 12 May 1947 at Birmingham, Alabama
  • (Organized Reserves redesignated 25 March 1948 as the Organized Reserve Corps; redesignated 9 July 1952 as the Army Reserve)
  • Reorganized and redesignated 18 May 1949 as the 87th Reconnaissance Company
  • Inactivated 1 December 1951 at Birmingham, Alabama
  • Converted and redesignated 26 March 1963 as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 174th Infantry Brigade
  • Withdrawn 24 October 1997 from the Army Reserve and allotted to the Regular Army; Headquarters concurrently activated at Fort Drum, New York
  • Inactivated 16 October 1999 at Fort Drum, New York
  • Headquarters activated 1 December 2006 at Fort Drum, New York

Campaign Participation Credit

  • World War I
  • Streamer without inscription
  • World War II
  • Rhineland
  • Ardennes-Alsace
  • Central Europe

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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