The 33d Armored and 33d Cavalry Coat of Arms

1st Battalion, 33d Armor  Lineage and History

Constituted 13 January 1941 in the Regular Army as Company A, 3d Armored Regiment, an element of the 3d Armored Division

Activated 15 April 1941 at Camp Beauregard, Louisiana

Redesignated 8 May 1941 as Company A, 33d Armored Regiment

deactivated 10 November 1945 in Germany

Redesignated 7 July 1947 as Company D, 33d Tank Battalion

Activated 15 July 1947 at Fort Knox, Kentucky

Reorganized and redesignated 30 July 1948 as Company D, 33d Medium Tank Battalion

Reorganized and redesignated 15 March 1955 as Company D, 33d Tank Battalion

Reorganized and redesignated 1 October 1957 as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 1st Medium Tank Battalion, 33d Armor, and remained assigned to the 3d Armored Division (organic elements concurrently constituted and activated using personnel and equipment from the 33d Tank Battalion)

Reorganized and redesignated 1 September 1963 as the 1st Battalion, 33d Armor

deactivated 16 February 1987 in Germany and relieved from assignment to the 3d Armored Division with all personnel and equipment being transferred to the 3d Battalion, 8th Cavalry

Activated 16 April 1987 at Fort Lewis, Washington using personnel and equipment from the 2d Battalion, 77th Armor

Assigned 15 August 1988 to the 9th Infantry Division

deactivated 28 September 1990 at Fort Lewis, Washington, and relieved from assignment to the 9th Infantry Division

Assigned 16 February 1991 to the 199th Infantry Brigade and activated at Fort Lewis, Washington

Relieved 16 July 1992 from assignment to the 199th Infantry Brigade

deactivated 14 January 1994 at Fort Polk, Louisiana

Assigned 16 April 1995 to the 2d Infantry Division and activated at Fort Lewis, Washington using personnel and equipment from the 3d Battalion, 77th Armor. 

The Battalion remained part of the 3rd Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division and was part of the Army's transition to Interim Brigade Combat Teams beginning the process in 1999. The 1st Brigade, 25th Infantry Division was the other of the first two brigades in the Army to begin the process.

Reorganized and redesignated  33rd Cavalry Regiment in 2005 and currently assigned to 3rd Brigade, 101st Airborne (Air Assault).  The "Men of War" is currently deployed to Iraq.

Honors:  See Honors for 33d Armor Regiment