37th Armor Regiment (United States)

37th Armored Regiment
37th Armor coat of arms
Active	1941–2011, reactivated June 2015
Country	United States
Branch	Army
Type	Armor
Part of	1st Armored Division
Garrison/HQ	1–37 Arm Rgt: Fort Bliss, TX; 2–37 Arm Rgt: Fort Bliss, TX
Nickname(s)	"Point of the Spearhead" "Bandits" "Dukes"
Motto(s)	"Courage Conquers"
Colors	Yellow, blue and red
Engagements	World War II (4th Armored Division) War in Southwest Asia Iraq Campaign
Commanders
Notable commanders	LTC Creighton Abrams; Ed Dyer; BG Robert White; LTG David R. Hogg

The 37th Armor is an armor (tank) regiment of the United States Army. It is often remembered as the successor to the 37th Tank Battalion, 4th Armored Division, commanded by then Lieutenant Colonel Creighton Abrams (Abrams tank) during World War II.

The 37th Armored Regiment (37th Armor) was constituted 13 January 1941 in the Regular Army as the 7th Armored Regiment (7th Armor) and assigned to the 4th Armored Division (4th Armored) when the Armored Division was activated on 15 April 1941 at Pine Camp (now Fort Drum), New York. The 7th Armor Regiment was redesignated the 37th Armored Regiment on 8 May 1941. The first filler personnel arrived at Pine Camp four days later, and two weeks after that a thirteen-week basic training cycle was begun. Training in the fundamentals of armor began, despite the fact that there were only twenty one tanks in the entire 4th Armored Division. Many of the 37th Armor's key personnel were selected to cadre the 8th Armored Division.

In October 1942, the 4th Armored Division moved to Camp Forrest in Tullahoma, Tennessee on the Cumberland Plateau for maneuvers. In November, they moved again, to the West Coast Desert Training Center, first occupying Camp Ibis near Needles, California, California (in the Mojave Desert) and the Arizona and Nevada borders. During this time, some of the lessons learned in combat in North Africa by the 1st Armored Division and 2nd Armored Division were taught to the 4th Armored Division. In early June 1943, orders came for the 4th Armored Division to dismount at Camp Bowie, an Armored Division training center near Brownwood, Texas.