310th Cavalry Regiment (United States)

310th Cavalry Regiment
Coat of Arms of the 310th Cavalry Regiment
Active	February–October 1918 1922–1942
Country	United States
Branch	United States Army
Type	Cavalry
Part of	63rd Cavalry Division (1921–1942)
Garrison/HQ	Athens (1929–1941)
Motto(s)	"Fidelis" (Faithful)
Insignia
Distinctive Unit Insignia

The 310th Cavalry Regiment was a cavalry unit of the United States Army during World War I and the interwar period. It was activated in early 1918 but broken up later that year to form new artillery units. The unit was recreated as a Tennessee Organized Reserve unit during the interwar period, and later moved to Georgia in the early 1930s. It was disbanded after the United States entered World War II.

Shortly after the United States entered World War I, the regiment was constituted in the National Army on 18 May 1917, and organized on 17 February 1918 at Fort Ethan Allen. However, it was broken up on 18 October and its men were used to create the 58th and 59th Field Artillery Regiments, and the 20th Trench Mortar Battery. All three artillery units were demobilized at Camp Jackson on 10 February 1919.

On 15 October 1921, the 58th and 59th Field Artillery and the 20th Trench Mortar Battery were reconstituted in the Organized Reserve as the 310th Cavalry Regiment, part of the 63rd Cavalry Division in the Fourth Corps Area. The 310th was initiated (activated) on 2 February 1922 with regimental headquarters at Knoxville, 1st Squadron at Chattanooga, and 2nd Squadron at Nashville. The regiment joined the division's 155th Cavalry Brigade. It was reorganized on 1 July 1929 as a three-squadron regiment, and its headquarters was relocated to Athens on 22 October 1929. The entire regiment was simultaneously moved to northeast Georgia.

The regiment conducted summer training at Camp McClellan, Alabama, and Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia, with the 6th Cavalry Regiment. As an alternate form of training, the 309th provided basic cavalry military instruction to civilians under the Citizens' Military Training Camp program at Fort Oglethorpe. Its designated mobilization training station was Fort Oglethorpe, and its primary ROTC feeder school was the University of Georgia.