3rd Chemical Brigade

The 3rd Chemical Brigade is a training brigade of the United States Army based at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri, retaining for historic reasons its name.

Constituted 1 January 1942 in the Army of the United States as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 3d Separate Chemical Battalion, and activated           at Fort Benning, Georgia

Redesignated 1 April 1942 as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 3d Chemical Battalion

Reorganized and redesignated 24 November 1943 as Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment, 3d Chemical Battalion, Motorized

Reorganized and redesignated 11 March 1945 as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 3d Chemical Mortar Battalion

Inactivated 2 January 1946 at Camp Patrick Henry, Virginia

Activated 18 September 1950 at Fort Bragg, North Carolina

Allotted 25 May 1951 to the Regular Army

Inactivated 5 February 1953 at Fort Bragg, North Carolina

Redesignated 9 November 1954 as Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment, 3d Chemical Battalion

Activated 6 January 1955 at Fort Bragg, North Carolina

Inactivated 25 September 1958 at Fort Bragg, North Carolina 

Disbanded 20 September 1989

Reconstituted 1 October 1999 in the Regular Army; concurrently redesignated as Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment, 3d Chemical Brigade, transferred to the United States Army Training and Doctrine Command, and activated at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri

Campaign Participation Credit

World War II: Sicily (with arrowhead); Naples-Foggia; Rome-Arno; Southern France (with arrowhead); Rhineland; Ardennes-Alsace; Central Europe

Decorations

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