238th Cavalry Regiment (United States)

238th Cavalry Regiment
Coat of Arms of the 238th Cavalry Regiment
Active	1949–2009
Country	United States
Branch	United States Army
Type	Reconnaissance (Parent regiment under United States Army Regimental System)
Part of	76th Infantry Brigade (Troop E) (1995–2009)
Garrison/HQ	Bluffton (1994–2009)
Motto(s)	"Deo Favente" (With God's Favor)
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The 238th Cavalry Regiment was a United States Army parent cavalry regiment, represented in the Indiana Army National Guard by Troop E, 238th Cavalry, part of the 76th Infantry Brigade Combat Team, stationed at Bluffton.

It carried out reconnaissance missions to support the 76th Brigade Combat Team. The troop regimental crest displayed the motto of the 238th Cavalty, "Deo Favente" which translates into "With God's Favor." Its call sign was "Saber." It had three platoons. "Cobra," "Shadow," and "Deathdealer" were unofficially the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd platoons respectively.

The 238th was originally constituted on 31 January 1949 in the Indiana National Guard as the 138th Antiaircraft Artillery Automatic Weapons Battalion, part of the 38th Infantry Division. It was organized and Federally recognized on 7 March 1949 with headquarters at Marion, under the command of Major Glen W. Overman. The unit dropped the Automatic Weapons designation on 1 October 1953. It was converted and redesignated as the 2nd Reconnaissance Squadron of the 138th Armor on 1 February 1959, still part of the 38th Infantry Division.

On 1 March 1963, the squadron was redesignated as the 238th Cavalry, a parent regiment under the Combat Arms Regimental System. It consisted of the 1st Squadron, part of the 38th Division, organized by redesignation mainly from units of the 2nd Reconnaissance Squadron. The 1st Squadron's Headquarters and Headquarters troop (HHT) was redesignated from the 2nd Reconnaissance Squadron HHT at Marion, Troop A from the 2nd Reconnaissance Squadron's Troop A at Hartford City, Troop B from Troop C of the 2nd Reconnaissance Squadron at Bluffton, Troop C from Detachment 1 of Company A of the 293rd Infantry Regiment's 1st Battle Group at Huntington, Detachment 1 of Troop C from Company A of the 293rd's 1st Battle Group at Wabash, and Troop D (Air) from Detachment 1 of the Combat Support Company of the 293rd's 2nd Battle Group at Peru.