36th Engineer Brigade (United States)

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36th Engineer Brigade
Distinctive Unit Insignia
Combat Service Identification Badge

The 36th Engineer Brigade is a combat engineer brigade of the United States Army based at Fort Cavazos, Texas. The brigade is a subordinate unit of III Armored Corps.

The unit is responsible for providing command and control to subordinate Engineer units. The unit was formerly designated as the 36th Engineer Group, and before that as the 36th Engineer Regiment. The 36th is the only unit that has been organized in all three command structures that are commanded by a Colonel in the U.S. Army; regiment, group, and brigade.

With a lineage that dates back to 1933, the 36th Engineer Brigade saw action in the

amphibious assault, the brigade saw its role change several times, from combat engineers to front line infantry. It would later serve in the Korean War, earning several unit decorations. Recently, it has seen tours of duty in both Iraq and Afghanistan
.

Organization

The 36th Engineer Brigade is part of

Headquarters and Headquarters Company, which is located at Fort Cavazos, Texas and four Engineer Battalions:[1][2] 4th Engineer Battalion, 5th Engineer Battalion, 20th Engineer Battalion, and the 62nd Engineer Battalion.[1]

The brigade was the first of the US Army's Engineer Brigades to be converted to a modular design.[3] This means that the Brigade can be deployed and sustain itself independently, without a division or corps level command supporting it. Additionally, the brigade's design allows it to take command of additional units within a theater of operations, allowing for greater versatility on the battlefield.[4]

History

World War II

The 36th Engineer Brigade was originally constituted on 1 October 1933

amphibious assault and support operations. Because of this training, the unit's distinctive insignia was designed with a seahorse on a red and white shield.[3]

The brigade was deployed to the

Tunisia Campaign.[5]

The brigade would then participate in the

Operation Shingle, near Anzio. For fifty days, during Operation Shingle, soldiers of the brigade held 7 miles (11 km) of the front line and earned the distinction by the German army as "The Little Seahorse Division".[3]

The unit subsequently participated in the invasion of southern France in 1944, code named

Central Europe Campaign.[5]

Korean War

On 15 February 1945, the unit was redesignated as the 36th Engineer Combat Group,

Washington. The unit was broken up, its three battalions redesignated as the 2826th Combat Engineer Battalion, the 2827th Combat Engineer Battalion, and the 2828th Combat Engineer Battalion, respectively. They then assumed separate lineage, and the Regiment itself was inactivated on 30 November 1946 in Austria.[5]

Reactivated on 5 May 1947 at

Incheon Landings were conducted by X Corps. The group would follow IX Corps for the remainder of the Korean war.[8]

After its withdrawal from Korea, the unit did not participate in any notable campaigns until its inactivation on 30 May 1972 at Fort Lewis.

Fort Benning, Georgia.[5] It would see no conflicts until the start of the Gulf War. In 1989, it participated in "Exercise Camino De La Paz," an unscheduled exercise conducted in the first half of 1989 on the Osa Peninsula of Costa Rica.[9]

Present day

Soldiers from the 36th Engineer Brigade work on a construction project in Iraq.

During the 1991 Gulf War, the 36th Engineer Group (Construction) fought in support of the

Operation Iraqi Freedom, executing a wide variety of construction missions in support of combat operations, including the construction of enemy prisoner of war camps, theater convoy support centers, and soldier life support areas.[3] Some of the soldiers from the unit were still in Iraq as late as October 2007.[10]

On 16 June 2006, the unit was reorganized and redesignated the 36th Engineer Brigade.

Improvised Explosive Devices, a problem which had originated in Iraq but since became more of a threat in Afghanistan.[15][16]

Honors

Unit decorations

Ribbon Award Year Notes
Republic of Korea Presidential Unit Citation
 		1950–1952 for service in Korea
Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army) 1953 for service in Korea
Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army) 1954 for service in Korea
Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army) 1990–1991 for service in Southwest Asia
Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army) 2005–2006 for service in Iraq
Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army) 2007–2008 for service in Afghanistan
Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army) 2010–2011 for service in Iraq

Campaign streamers

Conflict Streamer Year(s)
World War II
French Morocco (with Arrowhead
) 		1942
World War II Tunisia 1942–1943
World War II Sicily (with Arrowhead) 1943
World War II Naples-Foggia (with Arrowhead) 1943
World War II Anzio (wirth Arrowhead) 1943
World War II Rome-Arno 1944
World War II Southern France (with Arrowhead) 1944
World War II Rhineland 1944–1945
World War II
Ardennes-Alsace
 1944–1945
World War II Central Europe 1945
Korean War UN Offensive 1950
Korean War CCF Intervention 1950
Korean War First UN Counteroffensive 1950
Korean War CCF Spring Offensive 1951
Korean War UN Summer-Fall Offensive 1951
Korean War Second Korean Winter 1951–1952
Korean War Korea, Summer-Fall 1952 1952
Korean War Third Korean Winter 1952–1953
Korean War Korea, Summer 1953 1953
Gulf War Defense of Saudi Arabia 1991
Gulf War Liberation and Defense of Kuwait 1991
Operation Enduring Freedom Afghanistan (CSES) 2002–2003
Operation Iraqi Freedom
 Iraq 2006–2007
Operation Enduring Freedom Afghanistan 2007–2008

References

  1. ^ a b "36th Engineer Brigade :: U.S Army Fort Cavazos". home.army.mil. Retrieved 10 February 2023.
  2. ^ "Units". Archived from the original on 21 September 2013. Retrieved 20 September 2013.
  3. ^ a b c d e f g h i 36th Engineer Brigade Homepage: History Archived 27 December 2008 at the Wayback Machine, 36th Engineer Brigade Staff. Retrieved 10 April 2008.
  4. ^ Lead The Way Archived 10 August 2007 at the Wayback Machine, CSM Clinton J. Pearson, United States Army Engineer School. Retrieved 10 April 2008.
  5. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k Lineage and Honors: 36th Engineer Brigade[permanent dead link], United States Army Center of Military History. Retrieved 10 April 2008
  6. ^ a b c The Institute of Heraldry: 36th Engineer Brigade Archived 28 June 2007 at the Wayback Machine, The Institute of Heraldry. Retrieved 12 May 2008.
  7. ^ a b Korea: ROA remembers the forgotten war.(Reserve Officers Association of the United States), The Officer magazine. Retrieved 26 August 2008.
  8. GlobalSecurity
    . Retrieved 26 August 2008.
  9. ^ Department of the Army Historical Summary: FY 1989 Archived 6 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine, United States Army. Retrieved 10 April 2008.
  10. ^ More than 150 Fort Cavazos soldiers return from Iraq Archived 16 February 2008 at the Wayback Machine, Amanda Kim Stairrett, Killeen Daily Herald. Retrieved 10 April 2008
  11. ^ 36th Eng. Bde. deploys to Afghanistan[permanent dead link], Heather Graham, Fort Cavazos Sentinel. Retrieved 10 April 2008.
  12. ^ February 2007&date=28 February 2007 US Army Community Relations Calendar[permanent dead link], United States Army. Retrieved 10 April 2008.
  13. ^ Workshop Trains Afghans on Construction Skills, Capt. Ashley Dellavalle, Defenselink.mil news service. Retrieved 10 April 2008.
  14. ^ DoD News Briefing with Col. Stevens from Afghanistan, Col. Gary Kneck, Department of Defense Press Office. Retrieved 10 April 2008
  15. ^ CTF Rugged Times: VOlume 1 Issue 4[permanent dead link], 1 April 2008. Retrieved 1 December 2008.
  16. ^ "Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 36th Engineer Brigade - Lineage and Honors | U.S. Army Center of Military History". history.army.mil. Retrieved 16 March 2023.

External links

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