Armor

[Subdeacon Joe]

"12 DECEMBER 1776 - ARMOR BRANCH BIRTHDAY

Armor has only been a permanent branch of the U.S. Army since 1950, but traces its origin to the Cavalry.  On 12 December 1776, the Continental Congress authorized the raising of one regiment of light dragoons for the Continental Army, which soon had four such regiments. The Continental Army later reorganized the understrength regiments to form legions which combined dragoons and light infantry, and a  number of other organizations with mounted components.

All cavalry was disbanded after the Revolutionary War, but temporary ones existed during the Indian campaigns of the 1790s and the War of 1812.  Regular Army mounted units were not formed again until 1832 with the Battalion of Mounted Rangers, which became the United States Regiment of Dragoons - the present 1st Cavalry Regiment - in 1833.  Mounted units then remained in the Army until #WWII.

The advent of the tank in #WWI saw the creation of the Tank Corps, American Expeditionary Forces (AEF) and the Tank Service in the United States, later also re-named the Tank Corps, of the wartime National Army, but disbanded in 1920 when tanks were allotted to the Infantry. The Cavalry maintained horse units but experimented with and integrated mechanized equipment during the inter-war period. 

The Army formed a provisional armored brigade in the late 1930s. When it proved successful, the Army placed all infantry and cavalry tank units under the control of the Chief of the Armored Force, commanded by Brigadier General Adna R. Chaffee, Jr., on 10 July 1940, and the cavalry transitioned to an entirely mechanized force by the end of World War II.  In 1950, the Army established Armor as a permanent branch, which encompassed all tank and mechanized cavalry units.

#Armyhistory #USArmy #USArmyArmor U.S. Army Armor School 

ALSO SEE
http://www.tioh.hqda.pentagon.mil/Catalog/Heraldry.aspx?HeraldryId=15270&CategoryId=9362&grp=2&menu=Uniformed Services&ps=24&p=0"

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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