E Troop 4th Cavalry
E Troop serves as the Brigade Reconnaissance Troop for 2nd Brigade, 1st Infantry Division, located in Schweinfurt, Germany. It conducts air insertion, mounted and dismounted infiltration through the enemy security zone and performs route, area, or zone reconnaissance in the enemy rear area. The Troop also performs forward and flank screening missions to provide early intelligence on enemy offensive activities and disrupt his movement with indirect fires.
In June 1999, E Troop deployed to the Former Yugoslav Republic of Kosovo as the lead element of the initial entry force. It remained there until December 1999, serving on the border between Kosovo and Serbia and as a quick reaction force, responding to incidents of violence all over the Multinational Brigade-East sector.
E Company was constituted March 3, 1855 in the Regular Army as Company E, 1st Cavalry and organized July through October of 1885 at Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
In 1883 it was Officially re-designated Troop E, 1st Cavalry from Company E, 1st Cavalry. On April 16, 1942 is was reorganized and re-designated as Troop A, 4th Cavalry, Mechanized. In December 1943 it was again reorganized and re-designated as Troop A, 4th Cavalry Reconnaissance Squadron, Mechanized.
Following the war the unit was converted and re-designated April 1, 1949 as Company A, 4th Reconnaissance Battalion but was inactivated in 1955 in Austria.
On April 20, 1959 the unit was reactivated and redesignated as Headquarters and Headquarters Troop, 5th Reconnaissance Squadron, 4th Cavalry, withdrawn from the Regular Army, and allotted to the Army Reserve 103rd Infantry Division (organic elements of the squadron concurrently constituted) and relocated to Ottumwa, Iowa. It served for roughly four years before being inactivated on March 15, 1963 at Ottumwa, Iowa, and relieved from assignment to the 103rd Infantry Division.
The Headquarters and Headquarters Troop, 5th Reconnaissance Squadron, 4th Cavalry were re-designated and reactivated in December 1963 - January 1964 as Troop E, 4th Cavalry, and assigned to the 205th Infantry Brigade at Madiaon Wisconsin
The unit was inactivated June 15, 1994 at Madison, Wisconsin, and relieved from assignment to the 205th Infantry Brigade bu was later assigned to the 1st Infantry Division and activated on December 18th, 1998 at Schweinfurt, Germany as the 2nd Brigade Reconnaissance Troop.
