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4th Squadron, 7th Cavalry Regiment

Lineage and Honors Information as of 29 October 1996

4th Squadron
7th Cavalry Lineage

Constituted 28 July 1866 in the Regular Army as Company D, 7th Cavalry

Organized 21 September 1866 at Fort Riley, Kansas

(Cavalry companies officially designated as troops in 1883)

(7th Cavalry assigned in December 1917 to the 15th Cavalry Division; relieved in May 1918 from assignment to the 15th Cavalry Division)

Reorganized and redesignated 13 September 1921 as Headquarters Troop, 1st Cavalry Division

Reorganized and redesignated 4 December 1943 as Headquarters Troop, 1st Cavalry Division, Special

Reorganized and redesignated 25 March 1949 as Headquarters Company, 1st Cavalry Division

Disbanded 1 July 1960 in Korea

Reconstituted 2 July 1960 in the Regular Army, consolidated with Headquarters and Headquarters Troop, 4th Reconnaissance Squadron, 7th Cavalry (see ANNEX 1), and consolidated unit designated as Headquarters and Headquarters Troop, 4th Reconnaissance Squadron, 7th Cavalry

Redesignated 25 January 1963 as Headquarters and Headquarters Troop, 4th Squadron, 7th Cavalry, and assigned to the 2d Infantry Division (organic elements concurrently constituted)

Squadron activated 20 February 1963 at Fort Benning, Georgia

Inactivated 18 January 1988 in Korea and relieved from assignment to the 2d Infantry Division

Assigned 16 February 1989 to the 3d Armored Division and activated in Germany

Inactivated 16 October 1991 in Germany and relieved from assignment to the 3d Armored Division

Headquarters and Headquarters Troop consolidated 5 April 1996 with the 2d Reconnaissance Company (see ANNEX 2) and consolidated unit designated as Headquarters and Headquarters Troop, 4th Squadron, 7th Cavalry; Squadron concurrently assigned to the 2d Infantry Division and activated in Korea

ANNEX 1

Constituted 13 November 1943 in the Regular Army as Troop D, 7th Cavalry

Activated 4 December 1943 in Australia, partly under cavalry and partly under infantry tables of organization and equipment

(7th Cavalry reorganized wholly as infantry 20 July 1945 but retained cavalry designations)

Reorganized and redesignated 25 March 1949 as Company D, 7th Cavalry

Inactivated 1 November 1957 in Korea and relieved from assignment to the 1st Cavalry Division; concurrently redesignated as Headquarters and Headquarters Troop, 4th Reconnaissance Squadron, 7th Cavalry

ANNEX 2

Constituted 20 July 1940 in the Regular Army as the 2d Reconnaissance Troop and assigned to the 2d Division (later redesignated as the 2d Infantry Division)

Activated 1 August 1940 at Fort Sam Houston, Texas

Redesignated 1 April 1942 as the 2d Cavalry Reconnaissance Troop

Redesignated 1 March 1943 as the 2d Reconnaissance Troop

Reorganized and redesignated 10 August 1943 as the 2d Reconnaissance Troop, Mechanized

Redesignated 6 July 1944 as the 2d Cavalry Reconnaissance Troop, Mechanized

Redesignated 16 June 1945 as the 2d Mechanized Reconnaissance Troop

Redesignated 30 July 1945 as the 2d Mechanized Cavalry Reconnaissance Troop

Reorganized and redesignated 15 October 1948 as the 2d Reconnaissance Company

Inactivated 20 June 1957 in Alaska and relieved from assignment to the 2d Infantry Division

4th Squadron
7th Cavalry Honors

Campaign Participation Credit

Indian Wars: * Comanches; * Little Big Horn; * Nez Perces; * Pine Ridge; * Montana 1873; * Dakota 1874

Mexican Expedition: * Mexico 1916-1917

World War II: * New Guinea; * Bismarck Archipelago (with arrowhead); * Leyte (with arrowhead); * Luzon; * Normandy; * Northern France; * Rhineland; * Ardennes-Alsace; * Central Europe

Korean War: * UN Defensive; * UN Offensive; * CCF Intervention; * First UN Counteroffensive; * CCF Spring Offensive; * UN Summer-Fall Offensive; * Second Korean Winter; * Korea, Summer-Fall 1952; * Third Korean Winter; * Korea, Summer 1953

Southwest Asia: * Defense of Saudi Arabia; * Liberation and Defense of Kuwait; * Cease-Fire

Decorations

Presidential Unit Citation (Army) for ANTIPOLO, LUZON

Presidential Unit Citation (Army) for TAEGU

Presidential Unit Citation (Army) for PUSAN

* Presidential Unit Citation (Army) for HONGCHON

* Presidential Unit Citation (Army) for YONCHON

* Philippine Presidential Unit Citation for 17 OCTOBER 1944 TO 4 JULY 1945

* Belgian Fourragere 1940

* Cited in the Order of the Day of the Belgian Army for action in the ARDENNES

* Cited in the Order of the Day of the Belgian Army for action at ELSENBORN CREST

* Republic of Korea Presidential Unit Citation for WAEGWAN-TAEGU