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141st Signal Battalion
"The Communicators"

As part of the transformation of the 1st Armored Division as a whole, the 141st Signal Battalion was inactivated. This was a product of the decision to restructure signal assets, among others, and place signal elements in special troops battalions at division and brigade level. This made these elements organic at both levels, whereas before they had been habitually attached to a division's brigades from the divisional signal battalion.

The 141st Signal Battalion was first constituted in June 1940 in the Regular Army as the 7th Signal Troop and was activated at Fort Knox, Kentucky. The unit was reorganized and redesignated in July 1940 as the 47th Signal Company and was assigned to the 1st Armored Division. In August 1941 it was redesignated as the 141st Signal Armored Company, and in January 1942 as the 141st Armored Signal Company.

Following World War II the unit was inactivated at Camp Kilmer, New Jersey in 1946. The unit was reactivated 5 years later on 7 March 1951 at Fort Hood. In February 1957 the unit was reorganized and redesignated as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 141st Signal Battalion, with its organic elements constituted on 11 February 1957 and activated on 15 February 1957 at Fort Polk, Louisiana. On 23 December 1957, the unit was inactivated at Fort Polk.

Company A, 141st Signal Battalion was reactivated by itself on 24 September 1960 at Fort Hood, Texas. The rest of the Battalion was reactivated on 3 February 1962 at Fort Hood, Texas.

Since then the 141st Signal battalion participated in Desert Storm with the 1st Armored Division, serving in the Defense of Saudi Arabia, Liberation and Defense of Kuwait, and Cease-Fire campaigns.

With the transformation of the 1st Armored Division to the US Army's modular force structure in the late 2000s, the 141st Signal Battalion was inactivated. Its personnel were reflagged as the signal elements in the special troops battalions at the division level and in each Division's 4 brigades.