3rd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Infantry Division (United States)
# 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Infantry Division (United States)

The 3rd Infantry Brigade Combat Team was an infantry brigade based at Fort Knox, Kentucky. The brigade is a subordinate unit of 1st Infantry Division.

## History

The 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Infantry Division, since it was constituted, has been organized, reorganized, Inactivated, disbanded, reconstituted, and redesignated several times.

* Constituted 24 May 1917 in the Regular Army as Headquarters Troop, 1st Expeditionary Division
* Organized 8 June 1917 at New York, New York
* Reorganized and redesignated 6 July 1917 as Headquarters Troop, 1st Division
* Reorganized and redesignated 13 February 1921 as Headquarters and Military Police Company (less Military Police Platoon), 1st Division
* Reorganized and redesignated 1 August 1942 as Headquarters Company, 1st Infantry Division
* Disbanded 20 April 1960 at Fort Riley, Kansas
* Reconstituted 23 October 1963 in the Regular Army as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 3rd Brigade, 1st Infantry Division
* Activated 2 January 1964 at Fort Riley, Kansas
* Redesignated 21 July 1975 as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 1st Infantry Division Forward
* Inactivated 15 August 1991 in Germany
* Redesignated 16 February 1996 as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 3d Brigade, 1st Infantry Division, and activated in Germany
* Headquarters, 3rd Brigade, 1st Infantry Division, reorganized and redesignated 16 April 2007 as Headquarters, 3d Brigade Combat Team, 1st Infantry Division (Headquarters Company, 3d Brigade, 1st Infantry Division – hereafter separate lineage)
* Inactivation Ceremony at Fort Knox, KY - 21 May 2014
* Reactivated

## Organization

The unit is composed of:

* Headquarters & Headquarters Company (HHC) ("Hellfighters")
* Special Troops Battalion (STB) ("Valiant Warrior")
* 2nd Battalion, 63rd Armor Regiment ("Lions")
* 2nd Battalion, 2nd Infantry Regiment ("Ramrods")
* 1st Battalion, 26th Infantry Regiment ("Blue Spaders")
* 6th Squadron, 4th Cavalry Regiment ("Raiders")
* 1st Battalion, 6th Field Artillery Regiment (1-6th FAR) ("Centaurs")
* 201st Brigade Support Battalion (201st BSB) ("Thor")
