UNITED STATES ARMY
3rd INFANTRY BRIGADE COMBAT TEAM, 25th INFANTRY DIVISION (UEx)
Unit Guidons
The US Army's infantry brigade combat team (IBCT) is built around three infantry battalions, each with a headquarters company, three rifle companies (A, B and C) and a heavy weapons company (D). Guidons for these companies are of the standard, traditional pattern for the Infantry branch. Combat engineer, military intelligence and signal companies are grouped in a brigade engineer battalion (BEB). The headquarters company of the BEB has an Engineer branch guidon and the other four companies have branch-oriented guidons. The cavalry squadron and the field artillery battalion have guidons of the standard branch pattern. The cavalry squadron has a headquarters troop, two motorized reconnaissance troops and one dismounted reconnaissance troop. The FA battalion has a headquarters battery and three firing batteries, two with towed 105mm howitzers and one with towed 155mm howitzers. Each firing battery has six howitzers. The headquarters company and forward support companies of the brigade support battalion (BSB) have buff guidons with scarlet letters and numerals but no branch insignia; the other three companies have branch-oriented guidons.
100st Battalion, 442st Infantry: The 100-442 IN is a unit of the US Army Reserve, descended from the 442nd Regimental Combat Team and the 100th Infantry Battalion of WW II fame. These units, made up of Americans of Japanese ancestry, compiled an unrivaled record of service in the European Theater of Operations. Under the Army’s Associated Units pilot program, the 100-442 is the 3rd IBCT's third infantry battalion. It will train and deploy with the brigade, and its soldiers wear the SSI of the 25th Infantry Division.
