4th cavalry brigade (united states)
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4th Cavalry Brigade (United States)
4th Cavalry Brigade
2nd Cavalry Division shoulder sleeve insignia
Active 19151944
2006present
Country United States
Branch U.S. Army
Role Training
Size Brigade
Garrison/HQ Fort Knox
Motto Train for Combat!
Commanders
Notable
commanders
Benjamin O. Davis Sr.
Harry Chamberlin
Insignia
Distinctive Unit Insignia
The 4th Cavalry Brigade is an AC/RC unit based at Fort Knox, Kentucky. The unit is responsible for training
selected United States Army Reserve & National Guard units that are based East of the Mississippi River. The
brigade was originally formed as an element of the 2nd Cavalry Division but was inactivated after the division was
broken up. The unit was formerly designated as 4th Brigade, 85th Division. The brigade is a subordinate unit of 1st
Army
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Organization
The unit is composed of:
HHC, 4th Cavalry Brigade
1st Squadron, 409th Regiment (Cavalry)
1st Battalion, 410th Regiment (Field Artillery)
1st Battalion, 311th Regiment (Infantry)
2nd Battalion, 311th Regiment (Infantry)
World War II organization
HHC, 4th Cavalry Brigade
10th Cavalry Regiment
28th Cavalry Regiment[1]
Lineage
Constituted 25 August 1942 in the Army of the United States as Headquarters, 4th Tank Destroyer Group
Activated 1 September 1942 at Camp Hood, Texas
Inactivated 26 October 1945 at Fort Jackson, South Carolina
Disbanded 5 August 1952
Reconstituted 24 October 1997 in the Regular Army as Headquarters, 4th Cavalry Brigade, and activated at Fort
Knox, Kentucky
Inactivated 16 October 1999 at Fort Knox, Kentucky
Activated 1 December 2006 at Fort Knox, Kentucky
Campaign participation credit
World War II
Normandy
Northern France
Rhineland
Ardennes-Alsace
Central Europe
References
This article incorporates public domain material from the United States Army Center of Military History
document "Lineage & Honors for 4th Cavalry Brigade"[2]
.
[2] http:/ /www.history. army. mil/html/forcestruc/lineages/branches/div/004cavbde. htm
The Brigade, A History by John J. McGrath from the Combat Studies Institute Press, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas.
External links
Brigade Homepage (http://www.knox.army.mil/partners/4-85th/index.asp)
4th Cavalry Brigade at Global Security (http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/agency/army/4cav-bde.htm)
Division East (1st Army) (http://www.first. army.mil/1aEast)
4/85th Division at Global Security (http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/agency/army/85d-4bde.htm)
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