2nd Battalion - 7th Infantry Regiment (Mechanized)
2nd Battalion, 7th Infantry Regiment, was originally constituted on 11 January 1812 in the Regular Army as a company of the 8th Infantry. It organized in 1812 in Tennessee, Georgia, or the adjacent territories. It was consolidated in May-October 1815 with a company of the 24th Infantry (constituted on 26 June 1812) and a company of the 39th Infantry (on constituted 29 January 1813) to form a company of the 7th Infantry. The unit was redesignated on 21 August 1816 as Company B, 7th Infantry.
It was consolidated on 4 June 1869 with Company B, 36th Infantry, which itself had been constituted on 3 May 1861 in the Regular Army as Company B, 3rd Battalion, 18th Infantry, organized in December 1861 at Camp Thomas, OH. It had been reorganized and redesignated on 26 December 1866 as Company B, 36th Infantry, and consolidated on 4 June 1869 with Company B, 7th Infantry, with the consolidated unit designated as Company B, 7th Infantry.
The newly consolidated unit was designated as Company B, 7th Infantry. The 7th Infantry itself was assigned on 21 November 1917 to the 3rd Division (later redesignated as the 3rd Infantry Division). It was reorganized and redesignated on 1 July 1957 as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 2nd Battle Group, 7th Infantry, relieved from assignment to the 3rd Infantry Division, and assigned to the 10th Infantry Division (its organic elements were concurrently constituted and activated). The Battle Group inactivated on 14 June 1958 at Fort Benning, GA.
Redesignated on 18 April 1963 as the 2nd Battalion, 7th Infantry; it was concurrently relieved from assignment to the 10th Infantry Division and assigned to the 3rd Infantry Division. It activated on 20 June 1963 in Germany. It inactivated on 1 May 1966 in Germany and was relieved from assignment to the 3rd Infantry Division.
Assigned on 16 December 1987 to the 24th Infantry Division, it activated at Fort Stewart, GA.
The unit was relieved on 16 February 1996 from assignment to the 24th Infantry Division and assigned to the 3rd Infantry Division.
