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The 4th Squadron, 4th Cavalry officially was stood up in September 2009 at Fort Riley, Kansas as part of 1st Infantry Division. It was inactivated in October 2015. The 6th Squadron, 4th Cavalry served as part of the recently inactivated 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Infantry Division, at Fort Knox, Kentucky.
II Field Force, Vietnam ordered the 25th Infantry Division at Củ Chi Base Camp, 24 km north of Tan Son Nhut, to send an armored cavalry troop to Hóc Môn District to cut off the anticipated VC route of withdrawal from Tan Son Nhut. At 04:15, the mission was assigned to Lieutenant Colonel Glenn K. Otis's 3rd Squadron, 4th Cavalry Regiment.
The VC broke contact after ninety minutes, but the battalion caught up with them at daybreak. Reinforced by Troops A and C of the 3rd Squadron, 4th Cavalry Regiment, the Americans nearly annihilated the 2nd Battalion, killing 243 VC while losing 6 killed and 28 wounded. As the fighting increased around Phu Lam, the ARVN 38th Ranger Battalion ...
Spc. 5 Dwight W. Birdwell distinguished himself by acts of gallantry and intrepidity above and beyond the call of duty while serving with Troop C, 3rd Squadron, 4th Cavalry, 25th Infantry Division, in the Republic of Vietnam on Jan. 31, 1968. On this date, a large enemy element initiated an assault on the Tan Son Nhut Airbase near Saigon.
An M551 Sheridan and crew of the 3rd Squadron, 4th Cavalry in the Vietnam War. Note the add-on belly armor M551 Sheridan of the 3/4th Cavalry, December 1969 (note the anti-RPG screen) The U.S. Army staff in Washington had been recommending since 1966 to the commander of U.S. forces in South Vietnam , General Westmoreland , that the Sheridan ...
The Vietnam War took a heavy toll on the students and families of Vero Beach High School’s Class of 1966. ... 1969, and was assigned to D Troop, 3rd Squadron, 4th Calvary, 25th Infantry Division ...
3rd Brigade, 4th Infantry Division and 1st Squadron, 10th Cavalry Regiment clear and search operation: Pleiku Province: May 22 – Jun 1: Operation Twickenham II [3] 5th Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment search and destroy operations: around Nui Thi Vai Mountain and Nui Dinh: May 24 – Jun 24: Operation Irish [1]
On 20 June the 2/35th Infantry's reconnaissance platoon, operating 10 kilometres north of the Chu Pong Massif pursued a group of PAVN soldiers and was pinned down by heavy fire and had to be rescued by the Battalion and Troop C 3rd Squadron, 4th Cavalry Regiment, US losses were 3 killed and 14 wounded. [1]: 290