Headquarters
177th Armored Brigade
Lineage and Honors Information as of 10 May 2007
Headquarters, 177th Armored Brigade Lineage
Constituted 5 August 1917 in the National Army as Headquarters, 177th Infantry Brigade, and assigned to the
89th Division
Organized 27 August 1917 at Camp Funston, Kansas
Demobilized 1 June 1919 at Camp Funston, Kansas
Reconstituted 24 June 1921 in the Organized Reserves as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 177th Infantry Brigade, and
assigned to the 89th Division
Organized 20 March 1922 at La Harpe, Kansas
Redesignated 23 March 1925 as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 177th Brigade
Redesignated 24 August 1936 as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 177th Infantry Brigade
Converted and redesignated 22 February 1942 as the 89th Reconnaissance Troop, 89th Division (less 3d Platoon) (Headquarters and
Headquarters Company, 178th Infantry Brigade, concurrently converted and redesignated as the 3d Platoon, 89th Reconnaissance
Troop, 89th Division)
Ordered into active military service 15 July 1942 and reorganized at Camp Carson, Colorado, as the 89th Cavalry Reconnaissance
Troop, and element of the 89th Division (later redesignated as the 89th Light Division)
Reorganized and redesignated 15 September 1943 as Troop A, 4th Reconnaissance Squadron, and relieved from assignment to the 89th
Light Division
Reorganzied and redesignated 8 December 1943 as Troop A, 34th Reconnaissance Squadron, Mechanized
Reorganized and redesignated 5 January 1944 as Troop A, 34th Cavalry Reconnaissance Squadron, Mechanized
Inactivated 3 March 1945 at Fort Riley, Kansas
Disbanded 23 April 1953
Reconstituted 16 October 1991 in the Regular Army (less 3d Platoon) as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 177th Armored
Brigade, and activated at Fort Irwin, California (3d Platoon, Troop A, 34th Cavalry Reconnaissance Squadron, Mechanized -
hereafter separate lineage)
Inactivated 15 October 1994 at Fort Irwin, California
Headquarters activated 24 October 1997 at Camp Shelby, Mississippi
Inactivated 16 October 1999 at Camp Shelby, Mississippi
Headquarters activated 1 December 2006 at Camp Shelby, Mississippi
Headquarters, 177th Armored Brigade Honors
Campaign Participation Credit
World War I: St. Mihiel, Meuse-Argonne, Lorraine 1918
Decorations
None