The 3rd Infantry Brigade Combat Team is an infantry brigade based at Fort Knox

Fort Knox

Fort Knox is a United States Army post in Kentucky south of Louisville and north of Elizabethtown. The base covers parts of Bullitt, Hardin, and Meade counties. It currently holds the Army Human Resources Center of Excellence to include the Army Human Resources Command, United States Army Cadet...

, Kentucky

Kentucky

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. The brigade is a subordinate unit of 1st Infantry Division.

The brigade was redesignated, re-organized & re-stationed several times:

• Headquarters Troop, 1ID (1917–1921)
• Headquarters & Military Police Company, 1ID (1921–1942)
• Headquarters Company, 1ID (1942–1960)
• Disbanded 1960
• Reconstituted in 1963
• Fort Riley 1963–65
• Vietnam 1965–1970
• As 1st Infantry Division (Forward) 1975–1991
• Kuwait 1990–1991
• Germany 1975–2005
• Fort Hood 2007–2009
• Fort Knox 2009 – present

Organization

The unit is composed of:

• Headquarters & Headquarters Company ("Hellfighters")
• 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 ("Centaurs")
• 201st Brigade Support Battalion ("Thor")
• 3-1 Brigade Special Troops Battalion ("Valiant Warrior")

For further information see The Brigade, A History by John J. McGrath from the Combat Studies Institute Press, Fort Leavenworth

Fort Leavenworth

Fort Leavenworth is a United States Army facility located in Leavenworth County, Kansas, immediately north of the city of Leavenworth in the upper northeast portion of the state. It is the oldest active United States Army post west of Washington, D.C. and has been in operation for over 180 years...

, Kansas

Kansas

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