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The 3rd started in Civil War. Indian War, Mexican Wars, War with Spain , Philippine incerrection, WW1, WW11, Gulf Iraq, Afganistan. Little Big Horn. The 3rd carries on today. The regiment has a history in the United States Army that dates back to 19 May 1846, when it was constituted in the Regular Army as the Regiment of Mounted Riflemen at Jefferson Barracks, Missouri. This unit was reorganized at the start of the American Civil War as the 3rd U.S. Cavalry Regiment on 3 August 1861. In January 1943, the regiment was re-designated as the 3rd Cavalry Group (Mechanized). Today they are equipped with Stryker vehicles. The 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment was the last heavy armored cavalry regiment in the U.S. Army until it officially became a Stryker regiment on 16 November 2011. It will retain its lineage as the 3rd Cavalry Regiment.[6]
Under various names it has seen action during eleven major conflicts: the Indian Wars, the Mexican–American War, the American Civil War, the Spanish–American War, the Philippine–American War, World War I, World War II, the Persian Gulf War, SFOR in Bosnia, Operation Iraqi Freedom, Operation New Dawn and in Afghanistan for Operation Enduring Freedom.
Twenty-three of the regiment\'s troopers received the Medal of Honor, all awarded for gallantry in action between 1871 and 1898. The list includes William \"Buffalo Bill\" Cody, whose award was rescinded in 1916 for not being a member of the military. Cody\'s medal was reinstated in Regiment of Mounted Riflemen was authorized by an Act of Congress on 1 December 1845 and was formed at Jefferson Barracks, Missouri. The president signed the bill in law on 19 May 1846 and COL Persifor F. Smith was placed in command. Thus came into existence a new organization in the United States Army: a regiment of riflemen, mounted to provide greater mobility than the infantry and equipped with Model 1841 percussion rifles to provide greater range and more accurate firepower than the infantry\'s muskets or the dragoon\'s carbines. The Mounted Riflemen were considered a separate branch of service at the time and wore green piping with a trumpet for the branch insignia.
When the Regiment of Mounted Riflemen was organized pursuant to the act of Congress in 1846, the first companies filled were A, B, C, and D. They would not be designated as troops until 1883 and would later make up the core of 1st (Tiger) Squadron, 3rd Cavalry Regiment. Companies C and F were recruited from the mountains of Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, and North Carolina, I Company was formed in New Orleans, Louisiana, and the rest of the regiment was recruited and Tennessee.[7]
\"Bandit Troop\" (then B Company) is the regiment\'s senior troop. It was organized 1 August 1846, and consisted of 1-Captain, 1-1st Lieutenant, 1-2nd Lieutenant, 1-Brevet 2Lt, and 75 enlisted men. \"Crazyhorse Troop\" (then C Company) was organized next on 1 September 1846, with Captain Samuel H. Walker as its commander. He is listed as being \"on detached service at Washington, obtaining equipment and recruits for Company\" until 21 May 1847. No doubt the \"equipment\" he was obtaining was the shipment of 1,000 Colt-Walker revolvers he had co-designed with Samuel Colt. \"Apache Troop\" (then A Company) completed its organization 1 October 1846. Captain William Wing Loring was the first Commander of A Company, and would later become the Regiment\'s 2nd Colonel, before resigning his commission to serve the Confederacy. \"Dragon Troop\" (then D Company) was organized 4 October 1846 with 3 officers and 61 enlisted. Captain Henry Pope was the first commander of D Company.Mexican–American War