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The 1st Squadron, 1st Cavalry Regiment is the BCT cavalry squadron assigned to the 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Armored Division.Carrying the lineage of Company A, United States Regiment of Dragoons, the squadron has served in the Mexican-American War, Civil War, various Indian wars, the Spanish–American War, the Philippine Insurrection, World War II, Vietnam, and the Global War on Terrorism.
On deployment to Vietnam in 1967, the squadron consisted of three armored cavalry troops and one air cavalry troop, D Troop, which was not deployed until July 1968. 'D' Troop, 1st Squadron, 1st Cavalry Regiment was shipped to Vietnam with its aircraft to join its parent unit, which was already in Vietnam attached to the Americal Division at Chu ...
89th Cavalry Regiment. 1st Squadron is the cavalry squadron assigned to the 2nd Infantry BCT, 10th Mountain Division, stationed at Fort Drum, New York; 3rd is the cavalry squadron assigned to the 3rd Infantry BCT, 10th Mountain Division, stationed at Fort Polk, Louisiana; 94th Cavalry Regiment
[citation needed] 2nd and 3rd Recce Squadrons consolidated 15 February 1968 with 1st Squadron, 108th Armored Cavalry Regiment. [6] 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 ...
1st Armored Brigade Headquarters and Headquarters Company; 6th Squadron, 1st Cavalry Regiment (6-1 CAV) 2nd Battalion, 37th Armor Regiment (2-37 AR) 4th Battalion, 70th Armor Regiment (4-70 AR) 1st Battalion, 36th Infantry Regiment (1-36 INF) 2nd Battalion, 3rd Field Artillery Regiment (2-3 FAR) 16th Engineer Battalion (16 ENG)
The 61st Aviation Company (Maintenance) was reflagged as Company I, 1st Aviation. In May 1988, the 1st Squadron, 1st Cavalry completed the conversion from a purely ground squadron to an air/ground squadron and moved from Schwabach to Katterbach. In late 1998, the 1st Squadron, 1st Cavalry turned in its M60A3s and received 40 M3 Cavalry Fighting ...
The 1st Cavalry Regiment remained assigned until it was transferred to the 1st Cavalry Division on 20 August 1921. The 7th, 8th, and 10th Cavalry Regiments were transferred on 13 September 1921, although the assignment of the 10th Cavalry Regiment to the 1st Cavalry Division was controversial because the transfer violated the Jim Crow laws.
In early March 1968 the 23rd Infantry Division was using Lieutenant colonel Walter C. Cousland's 1st Squadron, 1st Cavalry Regiment as a separate maneuver battalion in his own area of operations against the Vietcong (VC) 72nd Local Force Battalion, the 70th Main Force Battalion and the V-13 and V-15 Local Force Companies.