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Army units trade names, flags

Jun- 1-2006 » Filed Under: 2nd SCR , 4/2 SBCT

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MICHAEL GILBERT, The News Tribune

The 1st Brigade, 25th Infantry Division is on its way out of Fort Lewis, headed for Germany – and it’s taking the identity of one of its sister units with it.

At a ceremony today, the 2nd Cavalry Regiment, the oldest continuously serving regiment in the U.S. Army, will surrender its name, colors and lore to the 1-25 in a reflagging ceremony at Fort Lewis.

Then the old 2nd Cav will be redubbed the 4th Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division. And the 1-25’s identity will go into storage until it is handed over to another formation in Alaska.

Confused?

It’s all part of a major reorganization to increase the Army’s brigade combat teams from 33 to 43.

And it has to do with history.

The soldiers of the 2nd Cav have toiled at Fort Lewis the past couple of years, getting heaping helpings of cavalry folklore from their commanders as they convert to a Stryker brigade. But the unit has old ties to Germany.

From World War II until the end of the Cold War, its scouts sat across the East German and Czech border, looking for signs of a Soviet invasion that never came.


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