1st air cavalry Ft Benning date created
In June 1965 the colors of the 1st Cavalry Division were flown to Fort Benning and the 11th Air Assault Division's assets transferred to the 1st Cavalry Division, which was then sent to Vietnam as the first full division of the U.S. Army to arrive. The 1st Cavalry Division went home in 1965, but only long enough to be reorganized and be prepared for a new mission. On 3 July 1965, in Doughboy Stadium at Fort Benning, Georgia the colors of the 11th Air Assault Division (Test) were cased and retired. The 1st Cavalry Division remained in Japan and South Korea after the war until June 1965, when its colors were transferred to Fort Benning, Ga., and the unit was dispatched to Vietnam, said Richard L. Baker, of the U.S. Army Military History Institute in Carlisle. The 1st Cavalry Division went home in 1965, to Ft. Benning, GA, but only long enough to be reorganized for a new mission, becoming the Army's first air mobile division. The First Team was back in combat as the first fully committed division of the Vietnam War. On 01 July 1965, the 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile) was officially activated by General Order 185, Headquarters Third US Army, and was made up of the resources of the 11th Air Assault Division (Test), the 10th Air Transport Brigade and the 2nd Infantry Division. Upon graduating initial entry training and U.S. Army Airborne School at Fort Benning, Ga., as an airborne infantryman, Dupla was immediately deployed to Vietnam with the 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile), 9th Cavalry Regiment. 1 1957, October 15 - The 24th Infantry Division was reflagged as the 1st Cavalry Division in Tonggu, South Korea. 2  1965, July 01 - The 11th Air Assault Division was reflagged as the 1st Cavalry Division, the Army's first Airmobile Division, at Fort Benning, Georgia. The 11th Air Assault Division (Test) was formed in February 1963 as a tactical training and experimental test bed at Fort Benning, GA. At the same time, the 10th Air Transport Brigade was created around an existing aviation battalion at Fort Benning. In September 1965, the 1st Cavalry Division Artillery units were deployed in Vietnam. The Red Legs of the Division Artillery sailed into Vietnam aboard the USS Upshur, arriving in Vietnam at Qui Nhon on 05 September 1965. The Red Team was back in combat. On April 20, 2009, the first flights of 1st Air Cavalry Brigade Soldiers, the last brigade of the 1st Cavalry Division to deploy, left Robert Gray Army Airfield for Iraq amid a cheering crowd of Family members and friends.
June 1965