Operating alongside Chinese troops, the 124th Cavalry and the task force recaptured the Burma Road from the Japanese in early 1945.

The 124th was constituted on 13 February 1929 in the Texas National Guard and organized on 15 March 1929 from new and existing units.

Between 3 and 23 August, the regiment participated in the Third Army maneuvers in the Kisatchie National Forest in Louisiana, involving 70,000 troops.

The regiment relieved the 12th Cavalry of the Fort Brown Command sector of the Mexican Border Patrol.

After turning in its horses, the regiment left Fort Riley on 10 July, staging through Camp Anza to the Los Angeles Port of Embarkation, from which it departed aboard the transport USS General Henry W. Butner for Bombay, India on 25 July.

[2] The regiment became part of the newly activated 5332nd Brigade (Provisional), which became the Mars Task Force.

The 124th conducted long range operations deep behind Japanese lines, and used pack mules and aerial resupply.

To block the road at Nampakka, it moved over 300 miles in Japanese-held territory, relying only on aerial resupply.

Troop F commander 1st Lieutenant Jack L. Knight was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor for his actions on 2 February 1945 near Loi Kang, in which he singlehandedly knocked out two Japanese pill boxes and continued the attack despite having been blinded by a Japanese grenade.

Knight was the only Army Ground Forces recipient of the Medal of Honor in the China-Burma-India Theatre of the war.

[15] The regiment subsequently moved south along the Burma Road, reaching Lashio by 23 March.

The 124th Squadron was organized at Pecos on 14 March 1947 and was redesignated as the 112th Armored Cavalry's 2nd Battalion on 15 September 1949.

The new parent unit consisted of the 1st Reconnaissance Squadron and the 2nd Medium Tank Battalion, both part of the 36th Infantry Division.

It was withdrawn from CARS on 4 March 1987 and reorganized under the United States Army Regimental System with headquarters at Waco.

It deployed in March, attached to the 89th Military Police Brigade in Diyala Province near the Iranian border northeast of Baghdad.

In Iraq, the squadron was responsible for providing convoy and area security and force protection operations.

[18] In November, a team of soldiers operating the Recon Optical RAVEN R-400 RWS system were sent to support US forces during the Second Battle of Fallujah, as well as other teams providing transport for fireteams and supply support, encountering combat on a daily basis.

On 1 April 2011, Task Force Raptor was established by reinforcing the 3rd Squadron with the 702nd and 712th Military Police Companies.

[20] In February 2012, the 3rd Squadron, as part of Task Force Raptor, took over the Combined Joint Task Force – Horn of Africa security role at Camp Lemonnier, Djibouti, from the 1st Battalion, 161st Field Artillery.

[24] In late August and early September 2017, 1st Squadron participated in Hurricane Harvey relief efforts along with other Texas National Guard units.