page_title: 32nd Cavalry Regiment
section_title: Cold War
hierarchical_section_title: 32nd Cavalry Regiment / History / Cold War
caption_attribution_description: English: An M60A3 main battle tank of 3rd Battalion, 32nd Armor, part of the 3rd Brigade, 3rd Armored Division, moves along a street in Langgöns, Germany during Central Guardian, a phase of Exercise Reforger '85. An M113 and another M60A3 are visible in the background. Langgöns was near Ayers-Kaserne Kirchgöns, the garrison of the 3rd Battalion, 32nd Armor.
context_page_description: The 32nd Armor Regiment was an armored regiment of the United States Army until 2000 at which time it was deactivated. It was redesignated and reactivated as the 32nd Cavalry Regiment serving in the 1st Brigade, 101st Airborne Division in 2005.
context_section_description: Following the end of the Second World War, the 32nd Armor Regiment stood down along with the rest of the 3rd Armored Division on 10 November 1945. As Cold War tensions grew, the regiment was reactivated on 15 July 1947. Battalions of the regiment were stationed with United States Army Europe in West Germany and was tasked with deterring any Soviet advance through the Fulda Gap. The 1st Battalion was in Germany after the Korean War ended, and was joined by 3rd Battalion after being dispatched from Fort Stewart, Georgia in the early 1960s.
  Locations varied with divisional attachments. Examples in the 1960s: 1st Battalion and 3rd Battalion with the 3rd Brigade, 3rd Armored Division, in Friedberg; 5th Battalion with the 24th Infantry Division in Munich.
  Meanwhile, the 2nd Battalion was in Hawaii during the 1950s.
caption: An M60A3 of 3rd Battalion, 32nd Armor, 3rd Brigade, 3rd Armored Division,  moving through Langgöns during Central Guardian '85. Central Guardian '85 was part of the larger Exercise REFORGER '85.
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