Organized on 21
December 1924 in the Organized Reserve
with personnel from Kentucky and West
Virginia as HQ&HQ Company, 199th
Infantry Brigadeas an organic element of
the 100th Division with Headquarters at
Huntington, West Virginia.
Redesignated 23 March 1925 as HQ&HQ
Company, 199th Brigade.
Redesignated 24 August 1936 as HQ&HQ
Company, 199th Infantry Brigade.
Reorganized and redesignated 23 February
1942 as the 100th Recon Troop (less 3d
Platoon), 100th Division (concurrently,
200th Infantry Brigade reorganized and
redesignated as 3d Platoon, 100th Recon
Troop).
Troop rorganized and redesignated on 1
August 1942 as the 100th Recon Troop,
100th Infantry Division.
Troop ordered onto active military
service 15 November 1942 at Fort Jackson
SC and concurrently reorganized and
redesignated as the 100th Cavalry Recon
Troop.
Reorganized and redesignated 2 August
1943 as the 100th Recon Troop,
Mechanized.
Reorganized and redesignated 7 September
1945 as the 100th Mechanized Recon troop.
Inactivated 11 January 1946 at Camp
Patrick Henry, Virginia.
Redesignated 15 October 1946 as the Recon
Platoon, 100th Airborne Division.
Activated 2 December 1946 at Louisville,
Kentucky.
Reorganized and redesignated 31 August
1950 as the Anti Tank Platoon, 100th
Airborne Division.
Reorganized and redesignated 12 May 1952
as the 100th Recon Company (Organized
Reserves designated in 1948 as the
Organized Reserve Corps; in 1952 as the
Army Reserve).
Inactivated 22 April 1953 at Louisville,
Kentucky.
Activated 9 Janaury 1955 at Neon,
Kentucky as an element of the 100th
Infantry Division.
Disbanded 17 April 1959.
100th Recon Company reconstituted on 23
March 1966; concurrently relieved
from asignment to the 100th Infantry
Division, withdrawn from the Army
Reserve, allotted to the Regular Army and
company (less 3d Platoon) redesignated as
HQ&HQ Company, 199th Infantry Briagde
(Concurrently 3d Platoon, 100th Recon
Troop redesiganted as HQ&HQ Company,
200th Infantry Brigade with separate
lineage).
199th Infantry Brigade (Separate)(Light)
reactivetd 1 January 1966 at
Fort Benning, Georgia.
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