[hinckley buzzard]

A cavalry battalion has several types of vehicle. It is not like a heavy armor unit. It is not intended to meet a full armor assault.

[GreyFriar]

Hinckley,

The article does not say that it is the cavalry squadron, only that it is 1st Brigade Combat Team of 1st Cavalry Division.

The unit is 2nd Battalion, 8th Cavalry. https://www.facebook.com/pages/2-8-CAV-1BCT-1CD/130679013617883

2-8 Cav in 2002 was organized as a tank battalion.
I found a posting that it is currently a “combined arms battalion”. If it is deploying with only 20 Abrams tanks, then it must be organized as an infantry battalion heavy “Combined Arms Battalion with 2 infantry and 1 tank company.”

See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brigade_combat_team#Combined_Arms_Battalion

Right now the Army is in the midst of cutting units and re-organizing units to meet the bh0 cuts to Army strength.

When I was in the old 3rd Armored Division’s Divisional Cavalry Squadron, 3-12 Cav, we had 36 tanks (M60A3), 12 per troop, 50 x M113s & ITVs and a 4 M577s

[GreyFriar]

the traditional divisional cavalry squadron has been replaced by the Reconnaissance, surveillance, and target acquisition (RSTA) battalion. It does NOT have the combat capability of the Cold War ear divisional cavalry squadrons.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reconnaissance,_surveillance,_and_target_acquisition_(United_States)

Organization of 1st Combined Arms Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division is at:
http://www.hood.army.mil/1stCavDiv/pages/units/1bct/default.aspx

Also, the 1st Cavalry Division, in which I also served, the battalions were traditionally organized as either infantry or tank battalions and were named “cavalry” to keep the lineage and honors of the old cavalry units alive.