1-6 Cavalry Squadron

The 1st Squadron, 6th Cavalry Brigade was stationed at Camp Eagle, Republic of Korea, near Wonju. In the Korean theater, the three Apache battalions are dedicated to missions critical to the OPLAN: support of 2d Infantry Division operations ( 1-2 Aviation), and anti-special operations forces (anti-SOF) and deep attack operations (1-6 and 3-6 Cavalry).

On order, 1-6th Cavalry transitions to war and executes split base operations in designated assembly areas. It conducts overwater attacks into a designated CSCA. On order, it also may attack deep to destroy enemy forces.

Although the DPRK Scud Belt is within range of Combined Forces Command (CFC) attack helicopters, it is highly unlikely that an attack helicopter battalion will be dedicated solely to Theater Missile Defense [TMD] operations due to prioritization.

During the early 1980's the 1st Squadron, 6th Cavalry, was stationed at Fort Rucker, AL, and was known as an Armor Attack Helicopter squadron.

The history of First Squadron, Sixth Cavalry began in Maryland as Company A, Third Cavalry. The unit was constituted in May of 1861. Redesignated 3 August the same year as Company A, 6th Cavalry, they fought as part of the Army of the Potomac in sixteen Civil War campaigns including Antietam, Gettysburg, and Appomattox. After the war Company A moved west with the regiment spending more than thirty years policing the frontier. Company A took part in ten Indian War campaigns, particularly against Apache and Comanche Indians. In 1873, Company A, 6th Cavalry became Troop A, Sixth Cavalry and remained so for 69 years.

The "Fighting Sixth" sailed to Cuba in 1898 and took part in the famous assault on San Juan Hill in the Spanish-American War. Only two years later, they took part in the China Relief Expedition. In 1907, the Philippine Insurrection brought Troop A to those islands. Troop A strongly contributed to the decisive victory over the Moros at Jolo in 1909. By 1916, Troop A was in action again, pursuiing Pancho Villa in the Mexican Punitive Expedition. In 1918, the Sixth Cavalry went to combat once more, this time as a rear echelon during World War I. In 1919, Troop A, along with the entire Sixth Cavalry was stationed at Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia.

Troop a became partially mechanized in the 1930's, and turned in the remainder of its horses by 1942, when it officially became Troop A, Sixth Cavalry, Mechanized. In January 1944, the regiment was broken up and reorganized. Troop A boasted high-power communications equipment and fast vehicles, making them ideal for maintaining command and control in General Patton's far-flung Third Army.

After the war, the Sixth Cavalry units performed occupational duties in Germany for seventeen years. The entire regiment inactivated in 1963 at Fort Knox, Kentucky, but Troop A was reactivated only four years later at Fort Meade, Maryland. Troop A was officially redesignated Headquarters and Headquarters Troop, 1st Squadron, Sixth Cavalry Regiment and assigned to the 1st Cavalry Division at Fort Hood, Texas in 1973. Relieved from assignment to the 1st Cav in 1975, they maintained zero strength until 17 January 1985 when they were activated as one of the pioneer AH-64 Apache units in the Army. The squadron served as a leader in doctinal development and validation for the AH-64 until its inactivation on 15 December 1995 at Fort Hood, Texas. Reactivated 16 July 1996 at Camp Eagle, Korea, the "Fighting Sixth" Squadron remains a combat multiplier to the combatant commander USFK and a major deterrent to North Korea aggression in the defense of the Republic of Korea.