page_title: 1st Armored Division (United States)
section_title: Units
hierarchical_section_title: 1st Armored Division (United States) / Current structure / Units
context_page_description: The 1st Armored Division, nicknamed "Old Ironsides," is a combined arms division of the United States Army. The division is part of III Corps and operates out of Fort Bliss in El Paso, Texas. It was the first armored division of the United States' Army to see battle in World War II. Since World War II, the division has been involved in the Korean War, Cuban Missile Crisis, Persian Gulf War, Iraq, Afghanistan, and several other operations. The division has also received numerous awards and recognition.
context_section_description: The division has been reorganized under the new modular design after moving to Fort Bliss, in which the deployable unit of maneuver is a brigade rather than a division. It consists of a Division Headquarters and Headquarters Battalion (DHHB), three Armored Brigade Combat Teams (ABCTs), a Combat Aviation Brigade (CAB), a Division Artillery (DIVARTY), and a Sustainment Brigade. Field Artillery Battalions are assigned to their respective Brigade Combat Teams.
  The division's 3rd Infantry Brigade Combat Team was deactivated after leaving Afghanistan in spring 2015, and its maneuver battalions were reassigned to the remaining three brigade combat teams; subsequently the division's 4th Armored Brigade Combat Team was re-flagged as 3rd Armored Brigade Combat Team.
  1st Armored Division consists of the following elements:
   Division Headquarters and Headquarters Battalion "Gladiator"
  Headquarters and Support Company
  Operations Company
  Intelligence and Sustainment Company
  Division Signal Company
  1st Armored Division Band
  1st Armored Brigade Combat Team (ABCT) "Ready First"
  Headquarters and Headquarters Company (HHC)
   6th Squadron, 1st Cavalry Regiment
   2nd Battalion, 37th Armor Regiment
   4th Battalion, 70th Armor Regiment
   1st Battalion, 36th Infantry Regiment
   2nd Battalion, 3rd Field Artillery Regiment (FAR)
   16th Brigade Engineer Battalion (BEB)
  501st Brigade Support Battalion (BSB)
  2nd ABCT "Iron Brigade"
  HHC
   1st Squadron, 1st Cavalry Regiment
   1st Battalion, 35th Armor Regiment
   1st Battalion, 37th Armor Regiment
   1st Battalion, 6th Infantry Regiment
   4th Battalion, 27th FAR
  40th BEB
  47th BSB
  3rd ABCT "Bulldog Brigade"
  HHC
   2nd Squadron, 13th Cavalry Regiment
   1st Battalion, 67th Armor Regiment
   1st Battalion, 77th Armor Regiment
   4th Battalion, 6th Infantry Regiment
   4th Battalion, 1st FAR
  2nd BEB (June 2015, raised from the BCT's former Special Troops Battalion)
  123rd BSB
  1st Armored Division Artillery (DIVARTY) "Iron Steel" (formerly 212th Fires Brigade)
  Headquarters and Headquarters Battery
  24th Theater Public Affairs Support Element (TPASE)
  Combat Aviation Brigade, 1st Armored Division "Iron Eagle"
   HHC
   3rd Squadron (Heavy Attack-Reconnaissance), 6th Cavalry Regiment "Heavy Cavalry"
   1st Battalion (Attack), 501st Aviation Regiment "Iron Dragons"
   2nd Battalion (General Support), 501st Aviation Regiment "Desert Knights"
   3rd Battalion (Assault), 501st Aviation Regiment "Apocalypse"
  127th Aviation Support Battalion "Work Horse"
   1st Armored Division Sustainment Brigade "Muleskinner"
   HHC
  Special Troops Battalion "Iron Legion"
   142nd Combat Sustainment Support Battalion "Atlas"
caption: An M1 Abrams Tank driving through the Taunus Mountains North of Frankfurt, Germany during Exercise Ready Crucible, circa 2005
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