Lineage And Honors Information
Lineage and Honors Information as of 9 April 2014
HEADQUARTERS,
189th INFANTRY BRIGADE
- 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 on 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
Campaign Participation Credit
- World War II
- Northern France
- Rhineland
- Ardennes-Alsace
- Central Europe
Decorations
- Army Superior Unit Award, Streamer embroidered 2008-2011
By Order of the Secretary of the Army:
Robert J. Dalessandro
Director, Center of Military History