5th Squadron, 14th Cavalry Regiment
"Strykehorse"
On 15 December 2006, the 5th Squadron, 14th Cavalry was inactivated and its personnel reflagged as the 2nd Squadron, 14th Cavalry, which was subsequently reactivated as the cavalry squadron assigned to the 2nd Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 25th Infantry Division.
The 14th Cavalry Regiment was first constituted in the regular Army on 2 February 1901 at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. The Regiment was baptized by fire in 1903 in the insurgency campaigns of the Philippines. Upon successful completion of those campaign in 1906, the Regiment returned home to the United States and took up garrisons in the Pacific Northwest, where it assumed peacetime duties. The Regiment was again called back to the Philippines in 1909, although this time it was only engaged in garrison duties and training.
In 1912, the Regiment was called for service in the Mexican campaign, joining General "Black Jack" Pershing's expeditionary forces in the summer of 1916, chasing bandits throughout the dust and heat of the Mexican plains. The Regiment then returned back to Texas, where it began the task of border patrolling until 1918, when it was called into service in Europe. The Armistice at Versailles was signed before the Regiment could cross the Atlantic and the Regiment reassumed its border patrol mission.
In 1920, the 14th Cavalry moved to Iowa and for approximately the next 2 decades served in peacetime capacity. In 1942, the Regiment was inactivated, and from its' lineage came the 14th Armored Cavalry Group. On 28 August 1944 , the 14th Armored Cavalry Group sailed for Europe, where it landed on Omaha Beach on 30 September 1944, and pressed east. On 18 October 1944, the unit was split with the 18th Armored Cavalry Squadron attached to the 2nd Infantry Division, and the 32nd Armored Cavalry Squadron attached to the 83rd Infantry Division.
On 12 December 1944, the headquarters element regained its' autonomy, and began guarding the Losheim Gap in Belgium. Then, on 16 December 1944, its turrets rang in anger as the 14th Armored Cavalry Group received the full brunt of the German winter counter-offensive in the Battle of the Bulge. After 2 days of savage fighting, the unit reassembled at Vielsam , Belgium and was attached to the 7th Armored Division. On 23 December 1944 , the unit held the southern flank of the perimeter, and allowed friendly troops to withdraw. On 25 December 1944 the unit was reequipped, attached the XVIII Airborne Corps, and moved back into the "Bulge" to push back the Nazi foe.
After the bloody and brutal fight in the Ardennes, the Group was assigned to the Third US Army, and ended the war near the Austrian border. After the Armistice, the unit was redesignated as the 14th Constabulatory Regiment in the US Army of Occupation. The Regiment was later redesignated the 14th Armored Cavalry Regiment in 1948, and served on the German border, guarding freedom's frontier to include the Fulda Gap, until the colors were cased in 1972.
The Regiment was then activated again on 15 September 2000 as the US Army's first Reconnaissance, Surveillance, and Target Acquisition (RSTA) Squadrons in the Stryker Brigade Combat Teams. As part of the Army's transformation towards a modular force, E Troop, 14th Cavalry was reorganized and redesignated as Headquarters and Headquarter Troop, 5th Squadron, 14th Cavalry Regiment, which was subsequently was activated on 16 October 2005 with its organic elements concurrently constituted and activated. 5-14th Cavalry was assigned to the 2nd Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 25th Infantry Division at Schofield Barracks, Hawaii. In December 2006, the Squadron was inactivated and its personnel reflagged as the 2nd Squadron, 14th Cavalry, which remained assigned to the 2nd Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 25th Infantry Division.
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