The 3rd Infantry Brigade Combat Team was an infantry brigade based at
Fort Knox,
Kentucky
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. The brigade was a subordinate unit of
1st Infantry Division.
History
The 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Infantry Division, since it was constituted, has been organized, reorganized, Inactivated, disbanded, reconstituted, and redesignated several times.
*Constituted 24 May 1917 in the Regular Army as Headquarters Troop, 1st Expeditionary Division
*Organized 8 June 1917 at New York, New York
*Reorganized and redesignated 6 July 1917 as Headquarters Troop, 1st Division
*Reorganized and redesignated 13 February 1921 as Headquarters and Military Police Company (less Military Police Platoon), 1st Division
*Reorganized and redesignated 1 August 1942 as Headquarters Company, 1st Infantry Division
*Disbanded 20 April 1960 at Fort Riley, Kansas
*Reconstituted 23 October 1963 in the Regular Army as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 3rd Brigade, 1st Infantry Division
*Activated 2 January 1964 at Fort Riley, Kansas
*Redesignated 21 July 1975 as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 1st Infantry Division Forward
*Inactivated 15 August 1991 in Germany
*Redesignated 16 February 1996 as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 3d Brigade, 1st Infantry Division, and activated in Germany
*Headquarters, 3rd Brigade, 1st Infantry Division, reorganized and redesignated 16 April 2007 as Headquarters, 3d Brigade Combat Team, 1st Infantry Division (Headquarters Company, 3d Brigade, 1st Infantry Division – hereafter separate lineage)
*Inactivation Ceremony at Fort Knox, KY - 21 May 2014
*Reactivated
Organization
The unit is composed of:
*
Headquarters & Headquarters Company (HHC) ("Hellfighters")
* Special Troops Battalion (STB) ("Valiant Warrior
*2nd Battalion,
63rd Armor Regiment (United States), 63rd Armor Regiment ("Lions")
*2nd Battalion,
2nd Infantry Regiment ("Ramrods")
*1st Battalion,
26th Infantry Regiment ("Blue Spaders")
*6th Squadron,
4th Cavalry Regiment
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("Raiders")
*1st Battalion,
6th Field Artillery Regiment
The 6th Field Artillery Regiment is a Field Artillery Branch regiment of the United States Army first activated in 1907 from numbered companies of artillery. It was first organized with two battalions.
6th Field Artillery assigned 8 June 1917 t ...
(1-6th FAR) ("Centaurs")
*201st Brigade Support Battalion (201st BSB) ("Thor")
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References
Further reading
''The Brigade, A History'' by John J. McGrath from the Combat Studies Institute Press, Fort Leavenworth,
Kansas
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.
External links
Official 3/1 IBCT Facebook Page
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Military units and formations established in 1963
Military units and formations disestablished in 2014