Lineage and Honors Information as of 31 May 2017

Headquarters
3d Brigade, 102d Infantry Division

  • Constituted 24 June 1921 in the Organized Reserves as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 204th Infantry Brigade, and assigned to the 102d Division
  • Organized in November 1921 at St. Joseph, Missouri
  • Redesignated 23 March 1925 as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 204th Brigade
  • Redesignated 24 August 1936 as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 204th Infantry Brigade
  • Location changed 2 November 1939 to St. Louis, Missouri
  • Converted and redesignated 22 February 1942 as the 3d Platoon, 102d Reconnaissance Troop, 102d Division (Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 203d Infantry Brigade, concurrently converted and redesignated as the 102d Reconnaissance Troop [less 3d Platoon], 102d Division)
  • Troop ordered into active military service 15 September 1942 and reorganized at Camp Maxey, Texas, as the 102d Cavalry Reconnaissance Troop, an element of the 102d Infantry Division
  • Reorganized and redesignated 16 August 1943 as the 102d Reconnaissance Troop, Mechanized
  • Inactivated 12 March 1946 at Camp Kilmer, New Jersey
  • Redesignated 7 April 1947 as the 102d Mechanized Cavalry Reconnaissance Troop
  • Activated 25 April 1947 at Kansas City, Missouri
  • (Organized Reserves redesignated 25 March 1948 as the Organized Reserve Corps; redesignated 9 July 1952 as the Army Reserve)
  • Reorganized and redesignated 25 November 1949 as the 102d Reconnaissance Company
  • Inactivated 31 May 1959 at Kansas City, Missouri
  • 3d Platoon, 102d Reconnaissance Company, converted and redesignated 26 March 1963 as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 3d Brigade, 102d Infantry Division (remainder of company - hereafter separate lineage)
  • Activated 1 April 1963 at Urbana, Illinois
  • Inactivated 31 December 1965 at Urbana, Illinois
  • Redesignated 16 September 2008 as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 3d Brigade, 102d Training Division, and Headquarters activated at West Hartford, Connecticut
  • Location changed 1 April 2017 to Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri

Campaign Participation Credit

  • World War II
  • Rhineland
  • Central Europe

Decorations

None

By Order of the Secretary of the Army:

CHARLES R. BOWERY, JR.
Chief of Military History


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