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Lineage and Honors Information as of 17 October 2011

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8th SQUADRON, 1st CAVALRY REGIMENT
(1st REGIMENT OF DRAGOONS)

 

           Constituted 2 March 1833 in the Regular Army as Company H, United States Regiment of Dragoons

            Organized 2 March 1834 at Jefferson Barracks, Missouri

            Redesignated 23 May 1836 as Company H, 1st Regiment of Dragoons

            Redesignated 3 August 1861 as Company H, 1st Cavalry

            (Cavalry companies officially designated as troops in 1883)

            (1st Cavalry assigned in December 1917 to the 15th Cavalry Division; relieved in May 1918 from assignment to the 15th Cavalry Division; assigned 20 August 1921 to the 1st Cavalry Division; relieved 3 January 1933 from assignment to the 1st Cavalry Division)

            Reorganized and redesignated 20 August 1921 as Headquarters Troop, 1st Cavalry Brigade, and assigned to the 1st Cavalry Division (later redesignated as the 1st Cavalry Division, Special)

            Inactivated 25 March 1949 in Japan and relieved from assignment to the 1st Cavalry Division, Special

            Converted and redesignated 20 May 1949 as Headquarters Troop, 1st Constabulary Brigade, and activated in Germany

            Inactivated 15 August 1951 in Germany

            Disbanded 5 December 1951

            Reconstituted 10 May 1967 in the Regular Army and redesignated as Headquarters and Headquarters Troop, 8th Squadron, 1st Cavalry (organic elements concurrently constituted)

            Squadron activated 25 August 1967 at Fort Knox, Kentucky

            Inactivated 14 July 1972 at Fort Knox, Kentucky

            Redesignated 14 July 1998 as Troop H, 1st Cavalry, and assigned to the 1st Armored Division

            Activated 16 June 2000 at Fort Riley, Kansas

            Redesignated 1 October 2005 as Troop H, 1st Cavalry Regiment

            Inactivated 15 September 2006 at Fort Riley, Kansas, and relieved from assignment to the 1st Armored Division

            Redesignated 17 April 2007 as Headquarters and Headquarters Troop, 8th Squadron, 1st Cavalry Regiment, assigned to the 5th Brigade Combat Team, 2d Infantry Division, and activated at Fort Lewis, Washington (organic elements currently activated)

            Relieved 22 July 2010 from assignment to the 5th Brigade Combat Team, 2d Infantry Division, and assigned to the 2d Brigade Combat Team, 2d Infantry Division

 

CAMPAIGN PARTICIPATION CREDIT

Mexican War
Buena Vista
California 1846
Coahuila 1846
New Mexico 1847
Chihuahua 1848

Indian Wars
*Modocs
Apaches
*Nez Perces
*Bannocks
Pine Ridge
New Mexico 1846
*New Mexico 1849
New Mexico 1850
*New Mexico 1851
*New Mexico 1854
*New Mexico 1855
New Mexico 1856
Oregon 1851
Oregon 1853
Oregon 1855
Oregon 1856
Oregon 1860
Oregon 1866
Oregon 1867
*Oregon 1868
California 1852
California 1860
*California 1867
California 1868
Colorado 1855
Arizona 1857
Arizona 1859
Arizona 1866
Arizona 1868
Arizona 1869
Arizona 1870
Arizona 1871
Arizona 1872
Arizona 1881
*Washington 1858
Idaho 1879
Montana 1887

Civil War
*Peninsula
Antietam
Fredericksburg
*Chancellorsville
*Gettysburg
*Wilderness
*Spotsylvania
*Cold Harbor
*Petersburg
*Shenandoah
*Appomattox
New Mexico 1862
Virginia 1862
*Virginia 1863
*Virginia 1864
Virginia 1865
*Maryland 1863
 
War with Spain
Santiago
 
Philippine Insurrection
Luzon 1901
Luzon 1902
 
World War II
Algeria-French Morocco (with arrowhead)
Tunisia
Naples-Foggia
Anzio
Rome-Arno
North Apennines
Po Valley
*New Guinea
*Bismarck Archipelago (with arrowhead)
*Leyte (with arrowhead)
*Luzon

War on Terrorism
Campaigns to be determined

 

DECORATIONS

            *Presidential Unit Citation (Army), Streamer embroidered LUZON

            *Valorous Unit Award, Streamer embroidered IRAQ 2003

            *Philippine Presidential Unit Citation, Streamer embroidered 17 OCTOBER 1944 TO
4 JULY 1945

 

BY ORDER OF THE SECRETARY OF THE ARMY: 

 

ROBERT J. DALESSANDRO
Director, Center of Military History


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