[1] The lineage of the former Company B, 58th Infantry Regiment was reorganized and redesignated effective 1 July 1957 as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 2d Armored Rifle Battalion, 58th Infantry, and assigned to the 2d Armored Division (organic elements concurrently constituted and activated).
[2] The battalion is tasked to provide trained and ready soldiers for the Army[3] as part of the 198th Infantry Brigade.
HQ Seventh Army General Order 87, 3 August 1965, further assigned the company to VII Corps.
The unit was formed from personnel and equipment of the US Army Long Range Reconnaissance Patrol Company (Airborne) which was inactivated on 15 May 1965 by HQ USAREUR General Order 120, 6 May 1965.
At the time it was activated, Company C (Long Range Patrol), 58th Infantry, had an authorized strength of six officers and 159 enlisted personnel.
On return from three months of gunnery and maneuver training in 1976 at McGregor Range in New Mexico (the brigade and battalion had previously deployed from Kelley Hill Barracks at Ft. Moore, Georgia to Eglin Air Force Base, Florida for a several week joint exercise), deployed Companies A and B for four months in support of the MICV (Mechanized Infantry Combat Vehicle) Developmental/Operational Tests 1 and 2.
The MICV later became the Bradley Infantry Fighting Vehicle and the Tests also deployed the MILEs systems with their sensors, laser weapons effect systems and other force on force technologies later deployed to Ft. Irwin and the National Training Center.
The company then trained and validated as a unit capable of replicating a Soviet motorized rifle battalion.
The two companies were deployed almost continuously for four months in the Turrentine Range Area and other locations on Ft. Moore performing one force on force exercise after another to develop data that eventually led to the deployment of the Bradley Fighting vehicle to the Army.
This additional platoon with the three tank sections allowed the company to render a Soviet motorized rifle battalion footprint during the force-on-force exercises of the tests.
All of this work made important contributions to the Army's highly effective heavy force capabilities that deployed in the two following Iraq Wars.
The battalion deployed to Hohenfels Training Area in Germany in October 1976 as part of the rotations in place at the time, and redeployed in March 1977, remaining at Fort Hood until inactivation on 31 May 1981.