Headquarters
205th Infantry Brigade
Lineage and Honors Information as of 24 April 2007
Headquarters, 205th Infantry Brigade Lineage
Constituted 24 June 1921 in the Organized Reserves as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 205th Infantry
Brigade, and assigned to the 103d Division
Organized in November 1921 at Warren, Arizona
Redesignated 23 March 1925 as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 205th Brigade
Redesignated 24 August 1936 as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 205th Infantry Brigade
Converted and redesignated 11 February 1942 as the 103d Reconnaissance Troop (less 3d Platoon), 103d Division (Headquarters and
Headquarters Company, 206th Infantry Brigade, concurrently converted and redesignated as the 3d Platoon, 103d Reconnaissance
Troop, 103d Division)
Troop ordered into active military service 15 November 1942 and reorganized at Camp Claiborne, Louisiana, as the 103d Cavalry
Reconnaissance Troop, an element of the 103d Infantry Division
Reorganized and redesignated 8 August 1943 as the 103d Reconnaissance Troop, Mechanized
Inactivated 22 September 1945 at Camp Patrick Henry, Virginia
Redesignated 15 April 1947 as the 103d Mechanized Cavalry Reconnaissance Troop
Activated 28 April 1947 at Council Bluffs, Iowa
(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 103d Reconnaissance Company
Inactivated 18 May 1959 at Council Bluffs, Iowa
Converted and redesignated (less 3d Platoon) 1 February 1963 as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 205th Infantry Brigade,
and relieved from assignment to the 103d Infantry Division; concurrently activated at Fort Snelling, Minnesota (3d Platoon, 103d
Reconnaissance Company concurrently redesignated as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 206th Infantry Brigade -- hereafter
separate lineage)
Inactivated 15 September 1994 at Fort Snelling, Minnesota
Withdrawn 24 October 1997 from the Army Reserve and allotted to the Regular Army; Headquarters concurrently activated at Fort
Benjamin Harrison, Indiana
Inactivated 16 October 1999 at Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indiana
Headquarters activated 1 December 2006 at Indianapolis, Indiana
Headquarters, 205th Infantry Brigade Honors
Campaign Participation Credit
World War II: Rhineland, Ardennes-Alsace, Central Europe
Decorations
None