Cold War
From 1963 to 1994 the 187th was organized as a separate Infantry brigade in the Army Reserve. During that era it was one of only three combat Infantry brigades in the Army Reserve.
The 187th Infantry Brigade was reactivated in the Army Reserve on 7 January 1963 with headquarters in Boston, Massachusetts. As a separate brigade, the 187th wore its own shoulder patch rather than the 94th Division patch its members had previously worn.
Cold War plans called for the brigade to deploy to Iceland as part of the Iceland Defense Force if a confrontation between NATO and the Soviet Union occurred.
The brigade's headquarters was relocated on 25 October 1971 to Wollaston, Massachusetts and on 13 July 1976 to Fort Devens, Massachusetts.
ORDER OF BATTLE
- Headquarters & Headquarters Company
- 3rd Battalion, 16th Infantry
- 3rd Battalion, 18th Infantry
- 3rd Battalion, 35th Infantry
- 5th Battalion, 5th Artillery
- 9th Battalion, 34th Armor (until 1968)
- 187th Support Battalion (Company A became 987th Personnel Service Company in 1990)
- 756th Engineer Company
- Troop D, 5th Cavalry
On 14 April 1994 the 187th Infantry brigade was inactivated as part of the Army-wide post-Cold War drawdown.
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