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The 49th Armored Division —nicknamed the "Lone Star"— was an armored division of the Texas Army National Guard during the Cold War. Active from 1947, the division formed part of the Texas Army National Guard together with the 36th Infantry Division. It was called up for active duty between 1961 and 1962 during the Berlin Crisis. In 1968 ...
40th Armored Brigade ... Now is the 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Infantry Division. ... 49th Infantry Brigade (Now the 49th Military Police Brigade) [1]
The 49th Armored Division was ordered to active federal service in October 1961 at Dallas, for the 1961 Berlin Crisis, and reverted to state control in August 1962. [2] The 36th and 49th were inactivated in 1968 and reorganized into three separate brigades, the 36th Infantry Brigade, 71st Infantry Brigade and 72d Infantry Brigade (Mechanized ...
By 1979, all three battalions of the 141st were assigned to the 1st Brigade, 49th Armored Division. In 1984, the 1/141 and 2/141 continued to be assigned to the 49th Armored, and 3d/141st was assigned to Texas National Guard Troop Command. In 1995, 2/141 was demobilized and the 3/141 was assigned to the 36th Brigade of the 49th Armored Division.
36th Brigade, 50th Armored Division - I'll Lead You (quotation attributed to John Bell Hood) [2] 37th Armor Regiment - Courage Conquers [2] 40th Armor Regiment - By Force and Valor [2] 40th Armored Brigade - Armipotent (Mighty in Arms) [2] 49th Armored Division - Lone Star [2] 50th Armor - In Via (On the Way) [2] 53rd Armor - Strength in Steel [2]
On 1 September 1993, the 50th Armored Division was inactivated and its remaining brigades joined other divisions. [3] New Jersey's 50th Infantry Brigade, which took the Division's lineage, was made part of the 42nd Infantry Division. The 36th Infantry Brigade from Texas was reabsorbed into the 49th Armored Division. [citation needed]
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The regiment was reorganized on 31 January 1963 to consist of the 1st and 2nd Battalions, elements of the 50th Armored Division; on 1 July 1975 it added a 3rd Battalion, also an element of the 50th Armored Division; on 16 October 1984 it dropped the 1st Battalion, 2nd and 3rd Battalions remaining with the 50th AD; withdrawn from the Combat Arms ...