The 302nd Armored Cavalry Regiment (302nd ACR) was a New York-based reconnaissance unit of the United States Army Organized Reserve Corps, which briefly existed after World War II.
[1] The regiment's 1st Battalion was redesignated from the 325th Mechanized Cavalry Squadron, which had been first constituted on 3 December 1941 as the 654th Tank Destroyer Battalion and activated on 15 December 1941 at Fort Benning after the United States entered World War II.
[2] Postwar, it was inactivated on Camp Patrick Henry, Virginia, on 13 November 1945.
It was redesignated as the 325th Mechanized Cavalry Squadron in the Organized Reserve on 10 April 1947 and activated two weeks later at Brooklyn.
[1] The 302nd ACR did not inherit the lineage of the prewar 302nd Cavalry Regiment, and was not authorized a coat of arms or distinctive unit insignia.