3rd Ranger Battalion (United States) - Annex

Annex

• Constituted 21 July 1943 in the Army of the United States as Company A, 3rd Ranger Battalion; concurrently consolidated with Company A, 3rd Ranger Battalion (Provisional) (organized 21 May 1943 in North Africa), and consolidated unit designated as Company A, 3rd Ranger Battalion.
• Redesignated 1 August 1943 as Company A, 3rd Ranger Infantry Battalion.
• Disbanded 15 August 1944.
• Reconstituted 25 October 1950 in the Regular Army as the 3rd Ranger Infantry Company.
• Activated 28 October at Fort Benning, Georgia.
• Inactivated 1 August 1951 in Korea.
• Redesignated 24 November 1952 as Company A, 3rd Ranger Infantry Battalion.
• Consolidated 15 April 1960 with the 1st Company, 1st Battalion, 2nd Regiment, 1st Special Service Force (activated 9 July 1942), and consolidated unit redesignated as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 13th Special Forces Group, 1st Special Forces.
• Withdrawn 14 December 1960 from the Regular Army and allotted to the United States Army Reserve (organic elements concurrently constituted).
• Group activated 1 March 1961 with Headquarters at Jacksonville, Florida.
• Headquarters and Headquarters Company inactivated 15 April 1963 at Jacksonville, Florida (organic elements inactivated 21 January 1966).
• Former Company A, 3rd Ranger Infantry Battalion, withdrawn 3 February 1986, consolidated with Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 3rd Battalion, 75th Infantry, and consolidated unit redesignated as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 3rd Battalion, 75th Ranger Regiment (remainder of 13th Special Forces Group, 1st Special Forces – hereafter separate lineage).