191st Infantry Brigade (United States): Difference between revisions

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The '''191st Infantry Brigade''' was constituted on 24 June 1921 in the Organized Reserves as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 191st Infantry Brigade, and assigned to the [[96th Infantry Division (United States)|96th Division]]. It was organized in December 1921 at Portland, Oregon, and redesignated on 23 March 1925 as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 191st Brigade, then redesignated on 24 August 1936 as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 191st Infantry Brigade. It was converted and redesignated on 6 April 1942 as the 96th Reconnaissance Troop (less 3d3rd Platoon), 96th Division (Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 192d Infantry Brigade, concurrently converted and redesignated as the 3d3rd Platoon, 96th Reconnaissance Troop, 96th Division). The Troop was ordered into active military service on 15 August 1942 and reorganized at Camp Adair, Oregon, as the 96th Cavalry Reconnaissance Troop, an element of the 96th Infantry Division. It was reorganized and redesignated on 16 August 1943 as the 96th Reconnaissance Troop, Mechanized, and then again reorganized and redesignated on 20 November 1945 as the 96th Mechanized Cavalry Reconnaissance Troop. Following World War II service with the 96th Infantry Division in the Pacific, it was inactivated on 3 February 1946 at Camp Anza, California.<ref name="US Army">{{cite web|url=http://www.history.army.mil/html/forcestruc/lineages/branches/div/191infbde.htm|title=Headquarters, 191st Infantry Brigade: Lineage and Honors |date=2 April 2014|publisher=U.S. Army Center of Military History (CMH)|accessdate=26 March 2017|archive-date=30 April 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170430000505/http://www.history.army.mil/html/forcestruc/lineages/branches/div/191infbde.htm|url-status=dead}} {{PD-notice}}</ref>

The unit was again activated on 20 January 1947 at Spokane, Washington. (The Organized Reserves was redesignated 25 March 1948 as the Organized Reserve Corps; redesignated 9 July 1952 as the Army Reserve.) It was reorganized and redesignated on 12 April 1949 as the 96th Reconnaissance Company and its location changed on 15 October 1951 to Salt Lake City, Utah. As part of an overall force reduction in the Reserve, the unit was inactivated 1 June 1959 at Salt Lake City, Utah. It was converted and redesignated (less 3d3rd Platoon) on 5 November 1962 as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 191st Infantry Brigade, and relieved from assignment to the 96th Infantry Division (3d3rd Platoon, 96th Reconnaissance Company, concurrently redesignated as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 192d192nd Infantry Brigade – hereafter separate lineage) and activated on 1 February 1963 at Helena, Montana, as the Army Reserve’sReserve's only mechanized infantry brigade, with elements in four states. The brigade consisted of these units:

* 3d[[File:38th Infantry Regiment DUI.png|25px]] 3rd Battalion, [[38th Infantry Regiment (United States)|38th Infantry]], Provo, UT

* [[File:59 Inf Rgt DUI.png|25px]] 1st Battalion, [[59th Infantry Regiment (United States)|59th Infantry]], Phoenix, AZ

* [[File:81ArmorRegtDUI.jpg|25px]] 4th Battalion, [[81st Armor Regiment|81st Armor]], Salt Lake City, UT (attached for training)

* [[File:40th Cavalry Regiment distinctive unit insignia.jpg|25px]] 8th Battalion, [[40th Cavalry Regiment (United States)|40th Armor]], Tucson, AZ

* [[File:35 FA Rgt DUI.jpg|25px]] 4th Battalion, [[35th Field Artillery Regiment|35th Artillery]], Billings, MT

* [[File:11 FA Rgt DUI.jpg|25px]] 4th Battalion, [[11th Field Artillery Regiment|11th Artillery]], Salt Lake City, UT (attached for training)

* [[File:1-8cav.gif|25px]] Troop D, [[8th Cavalry Regiment|8th Cavalry]], Ogden, UT

* [[File:US Army Quartermaster Regimental DUI.gif|25px]] 191st Support Battalion, Great Falls, MT

** [[File:U.S. Army Medical Department Regimental Insignia.jpg|25px]] Co B (Medical), Pocatello, ID

* [[File:US-Engineers-Regimental Insignia.png|25px]] 391st Engineer Company, Missoula, MT

The 191st held its first active duty training as a brigade at Fort Lewis, WA, in June 1963 and in May 1964 took part in Exercise DESERT STRIKE in the Mojave Desert. Half of the brigade took part in the exercise while the other half participated in active duty training at Fort Irwin, CA. According to an article in the March 1967 issue of ''The Army Reserve Magazine,'' “The"The 191st was to be the largest Army Reserve element in a combined operation that brought Active Army and Reserve Component troops together in the largest peacetime maneuver ever held in the United States. Under the guidance of [Brigadier] General [John P.] Connor, the brigade worked around the clock to bring troops and equipment to the required state of readiness to make a good showing for the Army Reserve during the exercise".”

In September 2012 elements of HQ 191st Infantry Brigade deployed as an SFAT (Strategic Forces Advisory Team) to eastern Afghanistan in support of Operation ENDURING FREEDOM. The brigade was inactivated at Fort Lewis, Washington, during a ceremony held on January 8, January 2014 and elements of the unit were integrated with the [[189th Infantry Brigade (United States)|189th Infantry Brigade (Training Support)]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Division West deactivates first brigade under Bold Shift|url=https://www.army.mil/article/141010/Division_West_deactivates_first_brigade_under_Bold_Shift/?from=RSS}}</ref>

* [[File:191 Inf Bde DUI.gif|25px]] [[Headquarters and headquarters company|Headquarters & Headquarters Company]], 191st Infantry Brigade

* [[File:356th Infantry Regiment DUI.jpg|25px]] 1st Battalion, 356th Regiment (LogisticalLogistics Support Battalion)

* [[File:357 Inf Rgt DUI.png|25px]] 1st Battalion, 357th Regiment (Infantry)

* 2d[[File:357 Inf Rgt DUI.png|25px]] 2nd Battalion, 357th Regiment (Infantry)

* 2d[[File:358 Inf Rgt DUI.png|25px]] 2nd Battalion, [[358th Infantry Regiment (United States)|358th Regiment]] (ArmoredArmor)

* 3d[[File:358 Inf Rgt DUI.png|25px]] 3rd Battalion, 358th Regiment (Field Artillery)

* [[File:364RegimentCOA.png|25px]] 1st Battalion, 364th Regiment (CS/CSSTraining Support Battalion)

* 2d[[File:364RegimentCOA.png|25px]] 2nd Battalion, 364th Regiment (CS/CSSTraining Support Battalion)

* 3d[[File:364RegimentCOA.png|25px]] 3rd Battalion, 364th Regiment (Engineer)