187th Infantry Brigade (United States)
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The 187th Infantry Brigade was first formed under the United States Army Reserve's 94th Army Reserve Command, which wore the patch of the inactivated 94th Infantry Division, from which the 187th was formed when the 94th was inactivated and the combat element reduced to brigade size. As a separate brigade, the 187th wore its own shoulder patch. It served from 1963 through 1994, when it was inactivated as part of the Army-wide post-Cold War drawdown.
Cold War plans called for the Brigade to deploy to Iceland as part of the Iceland Defense Force if a confrontation between NATO and the Soviet Union eventuated.[1]
[edit] World War II
Brigade Headquarters inactive.
[edit] Cold War
Organized as a separate infantry brigade.
ORDER OF BATTLE
- Headquarters & Headquarters Company
- 3rd Battalion, 16th Infantry
- 3rd Battalion, 18th Infantry
- 3rd Battalion, 35th Infantry
- 5th Battalion, 5th Artillery
- 9th Battalion, 34th Armor (until 1968)
- 187th Support Battalion (Company A became 987th Personnel Service Company in 1990)
- 756th Engineer Company
- Troop D, 5th Cavalry
The 187th Infantry Brigade was later reactivated as an active duty training unit at Fort Leonard Wood, MO, and inactivated on May 17, 2007. Its battalions were:
- 1st Battalion, 48th Infantry Regiment
- 2nd Battalion, 10th Infantry Regiment
- 3rd Battalion, 10th Infantry Regiment
- 43rd Adjutant General Battalion
[edit] References
- ^ Isby and Kamps, Armies of NATO's Central Front, 1984
