Headquarters
189th Infantry Brigade
Lineage and Honors Information as of 12 April 2007
Headquarters, 189th Infantry Brigade Lineage
Constituted 24 June 1921 in the Organized Reserves as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 189th Infantry Brigade, and assigned to the 95th Division
Organized in 1922 at Muskogee, Oklahoma
Redesignated 23 March 1925 as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 189th Brigade
Redesignated 24 August 1936 as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 189th Infantry Brigade
Location changed in 1940 to McAlester, Oklahoma
Converted and redesignated 13 February 1942 as the 95th Reconnaissance Troop (less 3d Platoon), 95th Division (Headquarters and
Headquarters Company, 190th Infantry Brigade, concurrently converted and redesignated as the 3d Platoon, 95th Reconnaissance
Troop, 95th Division)
Troop ordered into active military service 15 July 1942 and reorganized at Camp Swift, Texas, as the 95th Cavalry Reconnaissance
Troop, an element of the 95th Division (later redesignated as the 95th Infantry Division)
Reorganized and redesignated 1 August 1943 as the 95th Reconnaissance Troop, Mechanized
Inactivated 8 October 1945 at Camp Shelby, Mississippi
Redesignated 26 December 1947 as the 95th Mechanized Cavalry Reconnaissance Troop
Activated 9 January 1948 at Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
(Organized Reserves redesignated 25 March 1948 as the Organized Reserve Corps; redesignated 9 July 1952 as the Army Reserve)
Location changed 17 December 1948 to Stillwater, Oklahoma
Reorganized and redesignated 30 June 1949 as the 95th Reconnaissance Company
Inactivated 15 September 1951 at Stillwater, Oklahoma
Activated 1 March 1952 at Jonesboro, Arkansas
Location changed 1 June 1955 to Wewoka, Oklahoma
Disbanded 1 April 1959 at Wewoka, Oklahoma
95th Reconnaissance Company (less 3d Platoon) reconstituted 21 January 1963 in the Regular Army as Headquarters and Headquarters
Company, 189th Infantry Brigade (3d Platoon, 95th Reconnaissance Company concurrently reconstituted in the Regular Army as
Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 3d Brigade, 24th Infantry Division -- hereafter separate lineage)
Headquarters activated 24 October 1997 at Fort Bragg, North Carolina
Inactivated 16 October 1999 at Fort Bragg, North Carolina
Headquarters activated 1 December 2006 at Fort Bragg, North Carolina
Headquarters, 189th Infantry Brigade Honors
Campaign Participation Credit
World War II: Northern France, Rhineland, Ardennes-Alsace, Central Europe
Decorations
None