List_of_armored_and_cavalry_regiments_of_the_United_States_Army

List of armored and cavalry regiments of the United States Army

List of armored and cavalry regiments of the United States Army

Add article description

This list includes armored and cavalry regiments of the United States Army. Former armored cavalry regiments are listed separately.

1 to 100

101 to 200

  • 101st Cavalry Regiment (United States) (New York Army National Guard)
  • 102nd Cavalry Regiment
  • 103rd Armor Regiment (Pennsylvania Army National Guard)
  • 104th Cavalry Regiment (United States)(Pennsylvania Army National Guard)
  • 106th Armor
    • Troop E: In 1952 Companies A and C of the 106th Tank Battalion were headquartered at Camp Lincoln in Illinois. The unit was reorganized on 1 February 1968 to consist of Troop E, an element of the 33rd Infantry Brigade.
  • 107th Cavalry Regiment (Ohio Army National Guard)
  • 108th Armored Cavalry Regiment (Mississippi Army National Guard) - Organized as the 750th Tank Battalion in the Mississippi Army National Guard with headquarters at Senatobia, MS, from 16 Feb-28 May 1956. Expanded, reorganized and redesignated with 1st, 2nd and 3rd Recce Squadrons, 108th Armored Cavalry Regiment, 1 May 1959. Ordered into Federal Service from 30 September 1962 – 23 October 1962. In 1968 the regimental headquarters became 1st Brigade, 30th Armored Division, MSARNG.[citation needed] 2nd and 3rd Recce Squadrons consolidated 15 February 1968 with 1st Squadron, 108th Armored Cavalry Regiment. In the late 1990s the squadron was organized as a separate regimental armored cavalry squadron and was equipped with M1A1 tanks and M3A2 cavalry fighting vehicles. 1st Squadron, 108th Armored Cavalry inactivated 2007. Note the 108th Armor Regiment existed at the same time in the Georgia Army National Guard, sometimes with the same battalion numbers.
  • 108th Armor
  • 109th Armor
  • 110th Armor
  • 112th Cavalry "Rarin' to Go" - From 1973 all of the Texas Army National Guard armor units were renumbered as battalions of the 112th Armor. From 1988–93 eight battalions were assigned to the 112th making it then the largest armored regiment in the U.S. Army.[12]
    • 1st Squadron, 112th Cavalry - On 17 October 2008, the 4th Battalion, 112th Armor was renamed 1st Squadron, 112th Cavalry. The unit carries the colors and lineage of the original 112th Cavalry Regiment. The squadron Headquarters and Headquarters Troop are based in Bryan, Texas, with A Troop, B Troop and C Troop based in Taylor, Rosenberg and Ellington Field respectively. A and B Troops are equipped as cavalry units with HMMWVs, and C Troop is a dismounted infantry unit. The Squadron is part of the 72nd Infantry Brigade Combat Team of the 36th Infantry Division.
    • 2nd Battalion, 112th Armor - listed with 2nd Brigade, 1984-85[13]
    • 3rd Battalion, 112th Armor - listed with 2nd Brigade, 1984-85[13]
    • 4th Battalion, 112th Armor - listed with 3rd Brigade, 1984-85[13]
    • 5th Battalion, 112th Armor - listed with 3rd Brigade, 1984-85[13]
    • 6th Battalion, 112th Armor - listed with 1st Brigade, 1984-85[13]
    • 7th Battalion, 112th Armor -
    • 8th Battalion, 112th Armor -
  • 113th Cavalry Regiment (United States)
  • 115th Armor
  • 123rd Armor
  • 124th Armor (now 136th Regiment)
  • 124th Cavalry Regiment
  • 125th Armor
  • 126th Armor (now 126th Cavalry)
  • 127th Armor - traces its origins as far back as 1838, to a company also known as the "Buffalo City Guards". 127th Tank Battalion (formed 1950) reorganized and redesignated as 127th Armor, a CARS parent regiment, on 16 March 1959. The regiment then consisted of the 1st Medium Tank Battalion, an element of the 27th Armored Division (United States). Circa 2005 the 1st Battalion was a tank unit of the 3rd Brigade, 42nd Infantry Division (United States) in Buffalo, NY.[14] The 2nd Squadron, 101st Cavalry, also carries the lineage of the 1st Battalion, 127th Armor Regiment, which was converted into the 2nd Squadron, 101st Cav when the New York Army National Guard reorganized in 2005-2006.[15]
  • 131st Cavalry Regiment
  • 137th Armor
  • 138th Armor
  • 145th Armor (formerly 145th Infantry)
  • 147th Armored Regiment
  • 149th Armor
  • 150th Armor - one squadron of the 150th Cavalry listed with the 107th ACR in West Virginia in 1984-85 by Isby and Kamps 1985 (p. 385).[16]
  • 156th Armor "First to Fight"
  • 170th Cavalry (California Army National Guard) – Redesignated 1963 in the California Army National Guard as a CARS parent regiment. Represented by 1st Squadron, 170th Cavalry, part of the 49th Infantry Division. Broken up and elements redesignated in 1968. Troop E, 170th Cavalry active with 49th Infantry Brigade until 1974.[17]
  • 172nd Cavalry Regiment (Vermont Army National Guard) - On 1 March 1959 the previous 172nd Infantry Regiment was split into the 172nd Infantry and 172nd Armor.[18][page needed] Some elements were consolidated with the 124th Antiaircraft Artillery Battalion and converted and redesignated as the new 172nd Armor, a Combat Arms Regimental System parent regiment. The 172nd Armor was to consist of the 1st Medium Tank Battalion and the 2nd Reconnaissance Squadron, both part of the 43rd Infantry Division. The regiments were reorganized in 1963, 1964 (when the 172nd Infantry and 172nd Armor were merged) and 1968, when the 172nd Armor was reorganised in February to comprise the 1st and 2nd Battalions, elements of the 50th Armored Division. 1st Battalion, 172nd Armor and 2nd Battalion, 172nd Armor were both inactivated as the result of the 86th Brigade's conversion to Infantry, during 2006-08. Most units were reconfigured as parts of 1-172nd Cavalry or the 86th Brigade Special Troops Battalion.
    • 1st Squadron, 172nd Cavalry
    • 2nd Battalion, 172nd Armor - inactive.
  • 174th Armor
  • 185th Armor
  • 187th Armor
  • 194th Armor
  • 195th Armor
  • 196th Cavalry - (North Carolina Army National Guard) The regiment was originally constituted on 20 March 1959 as the 196th Armor as a parent regiment under the Combat Arms Regimental System and assigned to the 30th Infantry Division. Twelve days later, on 1 April 1959, 3rd Battalion, 139th Infantry Regiment and the 130th Tank Battalion, both from the 30th Infantry Division, were re-flagged and reassigned to the regiment as the 1st Reconnaissance Squadron and the 2nd Medium Tank Battalion, respectively.
    • 1st Reconnaissance Squadron (1959-1963)
    • 2nd Medium Tank Battalion (1959–63)
  • 198th Armor Regiment

201 to 300

  • 202nd Cavalry – South Carolina Army National Guard, redesignated 1991 from 713th Cavalry
    • Troop B, 202nd Cavalry, active 1991–2008[19][20]
  • 203rd Armor - Missouri National Guard, 1963-68. The 108th Mechanized Cavalry Reconnaissance Squadron was redesignated 1 November 1949 as 203rd Antiaircraft Artillery Automatic Weapons Battalion (mobile), reorganized and redesignated 1 December 1952 as 203rd Antiaircraft Artillery Gun Battalion. redesignated 1 October 1953 as 203rd Antiaircraft Artillery Battalion (90mm). It was consolidated 15 April 1959 with 203rd Combat Arms Regiment, a parent regiment under the Combat Arms Regimental System. This was part of the larger reorganisation that placed the Army National Guard under the ROCID/Pentomic organization. The battalion was redesignated 1st Reconnaissance Squadron, 203rd Combat Arms Regiment, and had its units remain in place at Joplin, Anderson, Monett, and Neosho.[21] It was then redesignated the 203rd Armor Regiment 1963, and then the 203rd Engineer Battalion in 1968.
  • 205th Armor "Virtus Et Fortitude" (Courage and Fortitude)
  • 208th Armor "Might for Right"
  • 210th Armor "Ducit Amor Patriae" (Led by Love of Country)
  • 237th Cavalry Regiment
  • 238th Cavalry Regiment
  • 240th Cavalry Regiment
  • 245th Armor "Rolling Thunder"
  • 246th Armor "Mailed Thunder"
  • 252nd Armor "Ready Poised Decisive" - On 10 March 1963, the 196th Cavalry Regiment was reorganized as the 252nd Armor Regiment, consisting of 1st and 2nd Battalions as elements of the 30th Infantry Division (concurrently, the former 196th Armor Regiment was reconstituted and reorganized from existing units of the North Carolina Army National Guard as the 196th Cavalry Regiment, hereafter a separate lineage).[22][23]
  • 256th Cavalry Regiment
  • 263rd Armor
  • 278th Armored Cavalry Regiment (Tennessee Army National Guard)(1977)
    • RHHT (TN ARNG, HHT, 278th ACR)(Knoxville, TN)
    • 1st Squadron (TN ARNG, ArmdCav, 278th ACR)(Henderson, TN)
    • 2nd Squadron (TN ARNG, ArmdCav, 278th ACR)(Kingsport, TN)
    • 3rd Squadron (TN ARNG, ArmdCav, 278th ACR)(Temple, TX)
    • 4th Squadron (TN ARNG, AirCav, 278th ACR)(Smyrna, TN)
    • Spt Squadron (TN ARNG, ACRSptSqn, 278th ACR)(Knoxville, TN)
  • 279th Cavalry Regiment (1946)
    • 1st Squadron (OK ARNG, RSTA (in formation?), 45th InfBde(L))(Tulsa, OK)(Listed as 1-279 INF with 45 IB(S) in Isby and Kamps 1985 (p. 384); seemingly last active September–December 2008, when 1st Battalion, 279th Infantry Regiment was redesignated 1-279 Cavalry, then quickly redesignated back to Infantry).
  • 297th Cavalry Regiment

301 on

See also

References

Citations

  1. [1]
    "During monsoon season US, Thai Soldiers mount massive training exercise". Archived from the original on 2016-08-22. Retrieved 2016-08-06.
  2. [2]
    US Army Alaska website Archived 2014-05-29 at the Wayback Machine
  3. [3]
    Sawicki 1985, pp. 193–194.
  4. [4]
    "126th Aviation Regiment Lineage and Honors". United States Army Center of Military History. Archived from the original on 1 July 2017. Retrieved 14 August 2017.
  5. [5]
    "N.J. National Guard To Consolidate". Courier-Post. 3 April 1964. p. 12 – via Newspapers.com.
  6. [6]
    Sawicki 1985, p. 212.
  7. [7]
    Pope & Kondratiuk 1995, p. 17.
  8. [8]
    "Reflagging in the Army: Appendix E - Recommendations for Armor | U.S. Army Center of Military History". history.army.mil.
  9. [9]
    David Isby and Charles Kamps (1985). Armies of NATO's Central Front. Jane's Publishing Company. p. 376. ISBN 0-7106-0341-X.
  10. [10]
    Sawicki 1985, p. 194.
  11. [11]
    The Daily Item (Sunbury, Pennsylvania), U.S. Army Honors Local National Guard Battalion, June 14, 2011
  12. [12]
    "Post World War II Texas National Guard". Archived from the original on 10 May 2008. Retrieved 2009-03-28.
  13. [13]
    Isby & Kamps 1985, p. 384.
  14. [14]
    Baumgardner & Aumiller 2006.
  15. [15]
    "Buffalo Guardsmen conduct Water Borne Training Reconnaissance at Fort Drum".
  16. [16]
    David Isby and Charles Kamps (1985). Armies of NATO's Central Front. Jane's Publishing Company. ISBN 0-7106-0341-X.
  17. [17]
    Sawicki 1985, pp. 303–304.
  18. [18]
    Pope & Kondratiuk 1995.
  19. [19]
    Pope & Kondratiuk 1995, p. 58.
  20. [20]
    Ackerman, Meghann (13 October 2008). "Storied Beaufort National Guard unit won't be sending in the cavalry anymore". The Beaufort Gazette – via NewsBank.
  21. [21]
    "Daily Capital News Newspaper Archives, Mar 21, 1959, p. 3". NewspaperArchive.com. March 21, 1959.
  22. [22]
    "History and Traditions: North Carolina National Guard." Second Edition, August 1966. Public Affairs Section, the Adjutant General's Department, State of North Carolina, Raleigh.
  23. [23]
    Pope & Kondratiuk 1995, p. 62.
  24. [24]
    Sawicki 1985, p. 344.
  25. [25]
    "US Army Reserve: 100th Division". US Army Reserve. Archived from the original on 27 July 2011. Retrieved 9 June 2009.
  26. [26]
    Sawicki 1985, p. 346.
  27. [27]
    Sawicki 1985, pp. 350–351.
  28. [28]
    Sawicki 1985, p. 354.
  29. [29]
    Sawicki 1985, p. 355.
  30. [30]
    Sawicki 1985, p. 356.
  31. [31]
    Sawicki 1985, p. 358.
  32. [32]
    Sawicki 1985, pp. 359–360.
  33. [33]
    Stubbs & Connor 1972, p. 287.
  34. [34]
    Pope & Kondratiuk 1995, p. 67.
  35. [35]
    Baumgardner, Neil; Aumiller, Tim (20 January 2006). "Armor-Cavalry Regiments". baummil.org. Archived from the original on 16 August 2016. Retrieved 2016-08-08.
  36. [36]
    Sawicki 1985, pp. 381–383.
  37. [37]
    "803d Armor Regiment". Institute of Heraldry. Archived from the original on 2016-08-20. Retrieved 2016-08-08.
  38. [38]
    Pope & Kondratiuk 1995, p. 64.
  39. [39]
    Services, United States Congress Senate Committee on Armed (1987). Department of Defense authorization for appropriations for fiscal years 1988 and 1989: hearings before the Committee on Armed Services, United States Senate, One hundredth Congress, first session on S. 1174 ... U.S. Government Printing Office.

Bibliography

Further reading
Share this article:

This article uses material from the Wikipedia article List_of_armored_and_cavalry_regiments_of_the_United_States_Army, and is written by contributors. Text is available under a CC BY-SA 4.0 International License; additional terms may apply. Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.