Lineage and Honors

Constituted 7 May 1877 in the Ohio National Guard and organized from new and existing units

1st Troop disbanded 28 January 1879 at Cincinnati; 2d and 3d Troops disbanded 1882-83 at Hillsboro and Shelby, respectively

1st Cleveland Troop organized 28 April 1886 at Cleveland

Redesignated in 1895 as Troop A (1st Cleveland Troop)

Expanded, reorganized, and redesignated 3 May 1898 as Troops A, B, C, 1st Ohio Volunteer Cavalry; remainder of regiment organized from new and existing units

1st Ohio Volunteer Cavalry mustered into Federal service 9-11 May 1898 at Camp Bushnell, Ohio; mustered out of Federal service 22-24 October 1898 at Cleveland

Former Troop A (1st Cleveland Troop) reorganized 14 April 1899 in the Ohio National Guard at Cleveland; Troop B reorganized 12 December 1902 in the Ohio National Guard at Columbus

Reorganized 25 July 1910 as the 1st Cavalry Squadron with Headquarters at Cleveland (Troops C and D organized in 1911 at Cincinnati and Toledo, respectively)

Mustered into Federal service 6 July 1916 at Columbus; mustered out 28 February 1917 at Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indiana

Expanded 16 April 1917 as the 1st Cavalry

Expanded, converted, and redesignated 23 May 1917 as the 2d and 3d Field Artillery.

Mustered into Federal service 15 July 1917 at Cleveland and Youngstown, respectively; drafted into Federal service 5 August 1917

Reorganized and redesignated 15 September 1917 as the 135th and the 136th Field Artillery, respectively, and assigned to the 37th Division

Demobilized 10 April 1919 at Camp Sherman, Ohio

Converted, reorganized, and Federally recognized 20 October 1919 - 18 November 1920 in the Ohio National Guard as the 1st Cavalry with Headquarters at Cincinnati

Redesignated 1 July 1921 as the 107th Cavalry, an element of the 22d Cavalry Division

(Location of Headquarters changed 10 May 1927 to Cleveland)

Consolidated 1 November 1940 with the 22d Reconaissance Squadron (organized and Federally recognized 15 September 1939 with Headquarters at Cincinnati) and consolidated unit designated as the 107th Cavalry; concurrently relieved from assignment to the 22d Cavalry Division

Inducted into Federal service 5 March 1941 at home stations

Regiment broken up 1 January 1944 and its elements reorganized and redesignated as follows:

Headquarters and Headquarters Troop as Headquarters and Headquarters Troop, 107th Cavalry Group, Mechanized

2d Squadron as the 107th Cavalry Reconnaissance Squadron, Mechanized

(1st Squadron as the 22d Cavalry Reconnaissance Squadron, Mechanized - hereafter seperate lineage).

After 1 January 1944, the above units underwent changes as follows:

Headquarters and Headquarters Troop, 107th Cavalry Group, Mechanized, inactivated 6 March 1945 at Camp Polk, Louisiana

107th Cavalry Reconnaissance Squadron, Mechanized, inactivated 16 November 1945 at Camp Bowie, Texas

Reorganized and Federally recognized 10 November 1947 as the 107th Mechanized Cavalry Reconnaissance Squadron with Headquarters at Cleveland.

Headquarters and Headquarters Troop, 107th Cavalry Group, and 107th Mechanized Cavalry Reconnaissance Squadron consolidated 15 September 1949 with the 185th Tank Battalion (organized and Federally recognized 12 December 1946 - 30 March 1949 with Headquarters at Cincinnati) and consolidated unit designated as the 107th Armored Cavalry at Cleveland

(3d Squadron allotted 1 May 1968 to the West Virginia Army National Guard - seperate lineage.)

Regiment (less 1st Squadron) reorganized 1 May 1977 in the Ohio Army National Guard (Troop A, Support Squadron, allotted 1 October 1986 to the West Virginia Army National Guard; reallotted 15 October 1990 to the Ohio Army National Guard)

Placed 1 June 1989 under the United States Army Regimental System

Reorganized and redesignated 1 September 1993 as the 107th Cavalry to consist of the 1st Battalion, an element of the 28th Infantry Division

Reorganized 31 March 1994 to consist of the 1st Battalion, an element of the 28th Infantry Division, and the 2d Squadron

Reorganized 1 September 1994 to consist of the 1st Battalion and the 2d Squadron, elements of the 38th Infantry Division

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