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Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 2d Brigade, 2d Infantry Division

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Organized in October 1920 in the Regular Army at Camp Travis, Texas, as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 4th Infantry Brigade, and assigned to the 2d Division

Redesignated 23 March 1925 as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 4th Brigade

Redesignated 24 August 1936 as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 4th Infantry Brigade

Disbanded 16 October 1939 at Fort Francis E. Warren, Wyoming

Reconstituted 25 January 1963 in the Regular Army as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 2d Brigade, 2d Infantry Division

Activated 15 February 1963 at Fort Benning, Georgia

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