Pentomic - Lineages & Honors

Lineages & Honors

When the U.S. Army division was reorganized under the Pentomic structure in 1957, the traditional regimental organization employed by the Army was to be eliminated. This raised questions as to what the new units were to be called, how they were to be numbered, and what their relationship to former organizations was to be. Many of the Army's senior officers were determined to perpetuate the historic lineages of the Army, unlike the situation after the Civil War when the Grand Army of the Republic persuaded Congress to forbid the linkage between the Civil War era Union Army Corps and the new Corps organized for the Spanish American War.

On 24 January 1957 the Secretary of the Army approved the CARS concept, as devised by the Deputy Chief of Staff for Personnel, which was designed to provide a flexible regimental structure that would permit perpetuation of unit history and tradition in the new tactical organization of divisions, without restricting the organizational trends of the future.

Separate brigades were organized with two or three battle groups. The 2nd Infantry Brigade was organized as follows:

• Headquarters & Headquarters Company
• 1st Battle Group, 4th Infantry
• 2nd Battle Group, 60th Infantry
• 1st Battalion, 76th Artillery
• Company F, 34th Armor
• Company G, 34th Armor
• Brigade Trains
• ??th Engineer Company
• ??th Engineer Company
• Troop F, 5th Cavalry