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The 40th Armor Regiment was a regiment of the Armored Branch of the United States Army until the inactivation of its last element, its 1st Battalion, in 1996. It was redesignated and reactivated in 2005 as the 40th Cavalry Regiment and assigned to the 4th Brigade (Airborne), 25th Infantry Division and in [1] In 2022 it became part oof the 2nd Infantry Brigade Combat Team (Airborne), 11th ...
4th Heavy Attack Reconnaissance Squadron: 16th Combat Aviation Brigade: N/A: Gray Army Airfield, Joint Base Lewis–McChord, Washington "Seek and Destroy" 6th Squadron: 10th Combat Aviation Brigade: 10th Mountain Division: Wheeler-Sack Army Airfield, Fort Drum, New York "Six Shooters" 17th Cavalry: 1st Heavy Attack Reconnaissance Squadron
6th Squadron is the cavalry squadron assigned to the 1st Armored Brigade Combat Team, 1st Armored Division, stationed at Fort Bliss, Texas. 8th Squadron is the cavalry squadron assigned to the 2nd Stryker BCT, 2nd Infantry Division, stationed at Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Washington. In July 2016, 8th Squadron - 1st Cavalry Regiment participated ...
In late 1998, the 1st Squadron, 1st Cavalry turned in its M60A3s and received 40 M3 Cavalry Fighting Vehicles (CFV). In July 1989, 2nd Battalion, 1st Aviation inactivated in Germany and the colors reactivated as an AH-64 Apache battalion at Fort Hood, Texas.
Reconnaissance, surveillance, and target acquisition (RSTA) squadrons are a type of unit in the United States Army.These are cavalry squadrons (though in IBCTs they typically contain at least one dismounted infantry troop), [1] [2] and act at the squadron level as a reconnaissance unit for their parent brigade combat teams.
On 28 September 2014 approximately half of the brigade's headquarters staff along with the brigade's 1st Squadron, 40th Cavalry Regiment deployed from Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson to Nuremberg, Germany and was transported to the Joint Multinational Readiness Center in Hohenfels for a two-week validation exercise prior to onward movement to ...
A Combat aviation brigade (CAB) is a multi-functional brigade-sized unit in the United States Army that fields military helicopters, offering a combination of attack/reconnaissance helicopters (Boeing AH-64 Apache), medium-lift helicopters (Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk), heavy-lift helicopters (Boeing CH-47 Chinook), and MEDEVAC capability.
At the end of January 2007, the brigade participated in the Battle of An Najif, in which a 4-227, AH-64D was shot down in combat operations. One week later a 1-227, AH-64D was also shot down. The brigade was deployed to Taji, Iraq again in 2009 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom, 09-11. 1st Air Cavalry helicopter in Afghanistan