153rd Cavalry Regiment

They specialized in jungle fighting and made many rotations to Fort Sherman, Panama to conduct annual training.

[4] Third Battalion deployed to Kuwait in February and was part of the initial invasion of Iraq during Operation Iraqi Freedom.

In 2004 when 3rd Infantry Division left Iraq to return home, 3rd Battalion, 124 Infantry Regiment was attached to 1st Armored Division, with elements also supporting Operational Detachment Alphas (ODAs) from 5th Special Forces Group and 19th Special Forces Group.

Three years after the cavalry transformation, the squadron was mobilized and deployed with the 53rd Infantry Brigade Combat Team in support of Operations Iraqi Freedom and New Dawn.

In preparation for their 2010 deployment, the squadron underwent intense pre-mobilization training at Camp Blanding, Florida for the entire month of October 2009.

In March 2022, 1-153 participated along with 3rd Battalion 157th Field Artillery Regiment and the USAF's 386th Expeditionary Logistics Readiness Squadron in Operation Agile Spartan II from Ali Al Salem Air Base, Kuwait, in a large-scale, joint and multinational operation focused on "Operational Testing & Evaluation of Agile Combat Employment core competencies".

Company M, 1st Florida Infantry Regiment was reorganized in Millville, a small town across the bayou east of Panama City, in April 1917 under command of Capt.

The company of 114 men was drafted into Federal service on 5 August 1917 at Millville and stationed at Camp Wheeler, where they, along with the entire 1st Florida, was broken up to create the 106th Engineers, 116th Field Artillery, 118th Machine Gun Battalion, and 106th Signal Battalion, as well as fill the 124th Infantry.

[7] The majority of the Bay County men served in the 106th Engineers, which arrived in Brest, France just before the end of the war.

[10] The Panama City unit was reorganized and federally recognized on 3 March 1947 as Company C, 124th Infantry.

[13] The unit consolidated on 20 January 1968 with an engineer platoon from Company A, 261st Engineer Battalion (organized 1 March 1963), and the consolidated unit was designated as Headquarters and Headquarters Company C, 3d Battalion, 124th Infantry.

[18] The detachment returned to a company-sized element on 3 January 1972 when it was reorganized as Support Company, 2nd Battalion, 124th Infantry.

John "Sam" Sargeant, deployed to Kuwait in 2010 where they guarded and operated the Khabari Crossing checkpoint into Iraq.

They mobilized in April and trained at Fort Bliss and Camp McGregor before deploying to Djibouti, where they were attached to 1st Battalion, 124th Infantry Regiment and secured Chabelly Airfield.

The company had a mess team at their home station and a detachment of two rifle platoons in Quincy.

They mobilized in July and trained at Fort Bliss, Texas and Camp McGregor, New Mexico before deploying to Djibouti, where they were attached to 2nd Battalion, 124th Infantry Regiment and secured the remote Chabelly Airfield.

Troop E, 153rd Cavalry was first organized in Tallahassee in 1964 as the mounted reconnaissance element of the 53rd Armored Brigade.

[28] The Ocala-based Troop E was consolidated and reorganized as Company C, 2nd Battalion, 124th Infantry during the Brigade Combat Team reformation in 2007.

Pre-mobilization at Camp Blanding, FL in October, 2009.
2008 recruitment poster for the "Darkhorse" Squadron.
Staff of 3rd Battalion, 124th Infantry, Commanded by LTC Charles Mohr in Fort Sherman, Panama, at annual training in 4–18 August 1973. [ 3 ]
Staff of 3rd Battalion, 124th Infantry at Fort Stewart in 2003 prior to the Iraq Invasion.
Staff officers of 1st Squadron, 153rd Cavalry at pre-mobilization training at Camp Blanding in October 2009.