3rd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Infantry Division (United States)

The 3rd Infantry Brigade Combat Team is an infantry brigade based at Fort Knox, Kentucky. The brigade is a subordinate unit of 1st Infantry Division.

The brigade was redesignated, re-organized & re-stationed several times:
 * Headquarters Troop, 1ID (1917–1921)
 * Headquarters & Military Police Company, 1ID (1921–1942)
 * Headquarters Company, 1ID (1942–1960)
 * Disbanded 1960
 * Reconstituted in 1963
 * Fort Riley 1963–65
 * Vietnam 1965–1970
 * As 1st Infantry Division (Forward) 1975–1991
 * Kuwait 1990–1991
 * Germany 1975–2005
 * Fort Hood 2007–2009
 * Fort Knox 2009 – present

Organization
The unit is composed of:
 * Headquarters & Headquarters Company ("Hellfighters")
 * Special Troops Battalion ("Valiant Warrior")
 * 2nd Battalion, 2nd Infantry Regiment ("Ramrods")
 * 1st Battalion, 26th Infantry Regiment ("Blue Spaders")
 * 6th Squadron, 4th Cavalry Regiment ("Raiders")
 * 1st Battalion, 6th Field Artillery Regiment ("Centaurs")
 * 201st Brigade Support Battalion ("Thor")

Official 3/1 IBCT Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/31IBCT

For further information see The Brigade, A History by John J. McGrath from the Combat Studies Institute Press, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas.