The 3rd Infantry Brigade Combat Team was an infantry brigade based at Fort Knox, Kentucky. The brigade is 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 â hereafter separate lineage)
- Inactivation Ceremony at Fort Knox, KY - 21 May 2014
- Reactivated
Organization
The unit is composed of:
References
Further reading
The Brigade, A History by John J. McGrath from the Combat Studies Institute Press, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas.
External links
Official 3/1 IBCT Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/31IBCT