The 205th Infantry Brigade, was first formed as part of the United States Army Reserve

United States Army Reserve

The United States Army Reserve is the federal reserve force of the United States Army. Together, the Army Reserve and the Army National Guard constitute the reserve components of the United States Army....

's 103rd Division. It was active from 1921 to 1942 and then from 1963 through 1994, and then reformed in 2006.

It was initially formed within the Organized Reserve Corps in Arizona and New Mexico, including the 409th and 410th Regiments. Its sister brigade within the 103rd Division was the 206th Brigade in Colorado, which included the 411th and 412th Regiments.

Lineage

• Constituted 24 June 1921 in the Organized Reserves as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 205th Infantry Brigade, and assigned to the 103rd Division
• Organized in November 1921 at Warren, Arizona
• Redesignated 23 March 1925 as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 205th Brigade
• Redesignated 24 August 1936 as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 205th Infantry Brigade
• Converted and redesignated 11 February 1942 as the 103rd Reconnaissance Troop (less 3rd Platoon), 103rd Division (Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 206th Infantry Brigade, concurrently converted and redesignated as the 3rd Platoon, 103rd Reconnaissance Troop, 103rd Division)
• Troop ordered into active military service 15 November 1942 and reorganized at Camp Claiborne
  Camp Claiborne
  Camp Claiborne was a U.S. Army military camp during World War II located in Rapides Parish in central Louisiana. The camp was under the jurisdiction of the U.S. Eighth Service Command, and included 23,000 acres ....
  
  , Louisiana
  Louisiana
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  , as the 103rd Cavalry Reconnaissance Troop, an element of the 103rd Infantry Division
• Reorganized and redesignated 8 August 1943 as the 103rd Reconnaissance Troop, Mechanized
• Inactivated 22 September 1945 at Camp Patrick Henry
  Camp Patrick Henry
  Camp Patrick Henry is a decommissioned United States Army base which was located in Warwick County, Virginia. After World War II, the site was redeveloped as a commercial airport, and became part of City of Newport News in 1958 when the former City of Warwick and Newport News were politically...
  
  , Virginia
  Virginia
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• Redesignated 15 April 1947 as the 103rd Mechanized Cavalry Reconnaissance Troop
• Activated 28 April 1947 at Council Bluffs, Iowa
  Council Bluffs, Iowa
  Council Bluffs, known until 1852 as Kanesville, Iowathe historic starting point of the Mormon Trail and eventual northernmost anchor town of the other emigrant trailsis a city in and the county seat of Pottawattamie County, Iowa, United States and is on the east bank of the Missouri River across...
  
  
• Organized Reserves redesignated 25 March 1948 as the Organized Reserve Corps.
• Reorganized and redesignated 25 November 1949 as the 103rd Reconnaissance Company
• Organized Reserve Corps redesignated 9 July 1952 as the Army Reserve.
• Inactivated 18 May 1959 at Council Bluffs, Iowa
• Converted and redesignated (less 3rd Platoon) 1 February 1963 as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 205th Infantry Brigade, and relieved from assignment to the 103rd Infantry Division; concurrently activated at Fort Snelling, Minnesota
  Minnesota
  Minnesota is a U.S. state located in the Midwestern United States. The twelfth largest state of the U.S., it is the twenty-first most populous, with 5.3 million residents. Minnesota was carved out of the eastern half of the Minnesota Territory and admitted to the Union as the thirty-second state...
  
   (3d Platoon, 103rd Reconnaissance Company concurrently redesignated as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 206th Infantry Brigade—hereafter separate lineage)
• Inactivated 15 September 1994 at Fort Snelling, Minnesota
• Withdrawn 24 October 1997 from the Army Reserve and allotted to the Regular Army; Headquarters concurrently activated at Fort Benjamin Harrison
  Fort Benjamin Harrison
  Fort Benjamin Harrison was a U.S. Army post located in suburban Lawrence, Indiana, northeast of Indianapolis. It is named for the 23rd United States President, Benjamin Harrison. Land was purchased in 1903, with the post being officially named for President Harrison in honor of Indianapolis being...
  
  , Indiana
  Indiana
  Indiana is a US state, admitted to the United States as the 19th on December 11, 1816. It is located in the Midwestern United States and Great Lakes Region. With 6,483,802 residents, the state is ranked 15th in population and 16th in population density. Indiana is ranked 38th in land area and is...
  
  
• Inactivated 6 October 1999 at Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indiana
• Headquarters activated 1 December 2006 at Indianapolis, Indiana
  Indianapolis, Indiana
  Indianapolis is the capital of the U.S. state of Indiana, and the county seat of Marion County, Indiana. As of the 2010 United States Census, the city's population is 839,489. It is by far Indiana's largest city and, as of the 2010 U.S...
  
  

Campaign participation credit

• World War II
  World War II
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1. Rhineland,
2. Ardennes-Alsace,
3. Central Europe
   Central Europe Campaign
   After crossing the Rhine the Western Allies fanned out overrunning all of western Germany from the Baltic in the north to Austria in the south before the Germans surrendered on 8 May 1945. This is known as the "Central Europe Campaign" in United States military histories.By the early spring of...
   
   

Cold War

The Brigade was organized as a separate infantry

Infantry

Infantrymen are soldiers who are specifically trained for the role of fighting on foot to engage the enemy face to face and have historically borne the brunt of the casualties of combat in wars. As the oldest branch of combat arms, they are the backbone of armies...

 brigade in Minnesota

Minnesota

Minnesota is a U.S. state located in the Midwestern United States. The twelfth largest state of the U.S., it is the twenty-first most populous, with 5.3 million residents. Minnesota was carved out of the eastern half of the Minnesota Territory and admitted to the Union as the thirty-second state...

 and Iowa

Iowa

Iowa is a state located in the Midwestern United States, an area often referred to as the "American Heartland". It derives its name from the Ioway people, one of the many American Indian tribes that occupied the state at the time of European exploration. Iowa was a part of the French colony of New...

. It was later assigned as a roundout element for the 6th Infantry Division (Light) in Alaska

Alaska

Alaska is the largest state in the United States by area. It is situated in the northwest extremity of the North American continent, with Canada to the east, the Arctic Ocean to the north, and the Pacific Ocean to the west and south, with Russia further west across the Bering Strait...

 and served as the only light infantry brigade in the Army Reserve.

Present

In December 2006, the 205th Infantry Brigade was activated using the personnel and assets of 3rd Brigade, 85th Division (Training Support) and assumed the mission to train Army Reserve and National Guard units. The 205th Infantry Brigade is a multi-component team consisting of active, reserve and National Guard soldiers and DA civilians with a primary focus being post-mobilization training of U.S. Army forces bound to support Operation Enduring Freedom, Operation Iraqi Freedom, and Multi National Task Force (East), Kosovo. The brigade primarily operates and trains at Camp Atterbury

Camp Atterbury

Camp Atterbury, near Edinburgh, Indiana, USA, is a training base of the Indiana National Guard. It was planned just months before the U.S. entry into World War II. Originally surveyed and researched by the Hurd Company, the present site was recommended to Congress in 1941. Construction commenced...

, Indiana. The brigade also has the mission of training Army Reserve units in Michigan, Ohio, and Indiana to ensure their combat readiness. http://www.campatterbury.in.ng.mil/205th/default.htm

Organization

The unit is composed of:http://www.first.army.mil/1aEast/organization-unitsleaders.asp

• Headquarters and Headquarters Company
  Headquarters and Headquarters Company
  In United States Army units, a headquarters and headquarters company is a company sized military unit, found at the battalion level and higher. In identifying a specific headquarters unit, it is usually referred to by its abbreviation as an HHC...
  
  , 205th Infantry Brigade
• 1–335 (IN) – Indianapolis, Indiana
• 2-337 (CS/CSS) – Selfridge ANGB, Michigan
• 2-338 (CS/CSS) – Indianapolis, Indiana
• 3-338 (CS/CSS) – Blacklick, Ohio
  Blacklick, Ohio
  Blacklick is a small unincorporated community in southern Jefferson Township, Franklin County, Ohio, United States. Blacklick is also included in the Columbus Metropolitan area...
  
  
• 3-411 (LSB) – Indianapolis, Indiana