United States. Army. Airborne Infantry, 187th

found: United States Army Center of Military History lineage and honors website, viewed Aug. 11, 2023Infantry page (187th Infantry Regiment) 187th Infantry page (187th Infantry Glider Infantry constituted Nov. 12, 1942, assigned Feb. 25, 1943 to 11th Airborne Division and activated at Camp Mackall, North Carolina; reorganized and redesignated June 30, 1949 as 187th Airborne Infantry; relieved 1 February 1951 from assignment to the 11th Airborne Division; assigned Jul. 1, 1956 to the 101st Airborne Division; relieved April 25, 1957 from assignment to the 101st Airborne Division; concurrently reorganized and redesignated as the 187th Infantry, a parent regiment under the Combat Arms Regimental System)

found: Korean War order of battle, 2002:p. 35 (187th Glider Infantry Regiment redesignated as 187th Airborne Infantry Regiment on June 30, 1949; on Aug. 1, 1950, the 187th Airborne Infantry Regiment and various support units detached from 11th Airborne Division and the combined unit, referred to as 187th Airborne Regimental Combat Team ("Rakkasans"), the unit left U.S. for Korea on Sept. 6, 1950, arrived in Korea on Oct. 18, 1950; on Jan. 1, 1951 187th Airborne Regimental Combat Team, also known as 187th ARCT, relieved from 11th Airborne Division and made a separate unit; redeployed to Japan on June 26, 1951 to serve as FECOM [i.e. Far East Command] reserve; redeployed to Korea on May 16-17, 1952 and returned to Japan on Oct. 18, 1952; deployed again to Korea on June 22-23, 1953; returned to U.S. in July 1955 and assigned to 101st Airborne Division; in addition to the 187th Airborne Infantry Regiment, the 187th Airborne Regimental Combat Team consisted of support units redesignated from selected units of the 11th Airborne Division as well as a Detachment of the 60th (Parachute) Field Ambulance, Indian Army)

found: Policy and direction: the first year, 1992:p. 170, etc. (187th Airborne RCT; 187th Airborne Regimental Combat Team was referred to by that name in official documents prior to its formal designation as a separate unit).