5th Engineer Battalion
Lineage and Honors Information as of 1 June 2007
5th Engineer Battalion Lineage
Organized 31 December 1861 in the Regular Army at Washington, District of Columbia, from new and existing companies of engineers as a provisional engineer battalion (constituted 28 July 1866 as the Battalion of Engineers)
Expanded 14 March-7 June 1901 to form the 1st and 2d Battalions of Engineers (1st Battalion of Engineers--hereafter separate lineage)
2d Battalion of Engineers expanded, reorganized, and redesignated 1 July-1 August 1916 as the 2d Regiment of Engineers
2d Regiment of Engineers expanded 21 May-20 June 1917 to form the 2d, 4th, and 5th Regiments of Engineers (2d and 4th Regiments of Engineers--hereafter separate lineages)
5th Regiment of Engineers redesignated 29 August 1917 as the 5th Engineers
Assigned 6 December 1917 to the 7th Division
Inactivated 27 September 1921 at Camp A.A. Humphreys, Virginia
Relieved 11 January 1936 from assignment to the 7th Division and assigned to the 8th Division
Activated 1 February 1936 at Fort Belvoir, Virginia
Relieved 16 September 1939 from assignment to the 8th Division
Redesignated 1 August 1942 as the 5th Engineer Combat Regiment
Regiment broken up 27 December 1943 and its elements reorganized and redesignated as follows:
2d Battalion as the 1278th Engineer Combat Battalion
(Headquarters and Headquarters and Service Company as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 1128th Engineer Combat Group; 1st Battalion as the 1277th Engineer Combat Battalion--hereafter separate lineages)
1278th Engineer Combat Battalion redesignated 23 January 1945 as the 5th Engineer Combat Battalion
Inactivated 26 November 1945 at New York, New York
Activated 5 May 1947 at Fort Lewis, Washington
Redesignated 5 June 1953 as the 5th Engineer Battalion
(Organic elements inactivated 17 May 2007 at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri; Support Company concurrently constituted and activated)
5th Engineer Battalion Honors
Campaign Participation Credit
Civil War: Peninsula; Antietam; Fredericksburg; Chancellorsville; Wilderness; Spotsylvania; Cold Harbor; Petersburg; Appomattox; Virginia 1863
War with Spain: Santiago
Philippine Insurrection: Streamer without inscription
Mexican Expedition: Mexico 1916-1917
World War I: Lorraine 1918
World War II: Normandy; Northern France; Rhineland; Ardennes-Alsace; Central Europe
Southwest Asia : Defense of Saudi Arabia; Liberation and Defense of Kuwait
War on Terrorism: Campaigns to be determined
Decorations
Valorous Unit Award for IRAQ 2004
Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army) for SOUTHWEST ASIA 1990-1991
Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army) for SOUTHWEST ASIA 2003