Lineage And Honors Information
Lineage and Honors Information as of 9 October 2015
23d Engineer Battalion
- Constituted 15 August 1917 in the National Army as the 23d Engineers
- Organized 5 September 1917 at Camp Meade, Maryland
- Regiment, less the 2d Battalion, demobilized 16 June 1919 at Camp Devens, Massachusetts; 2d Battalion demobilized 19 June 1919 at Camp Mills, New York
- Reconstituted 28 April 1932 in the Regular Army and consolidated with the 23d Engineers (constituted 18 October 1927 in the Regular Army); consolidated unit designated as the 23d Engineers
- Redesignated 13 January 1941 as the 23d Engineer Battalion
- Activated 15 April 1941 at Camp Beauregard, Louisiana, as an element of the 3d Armored Division
- Redesignated 1 January 1942 as the 23d Armored Engineer Battalion
- Inactivated 10 November 1945 in Germany
- Activated 15 July 1947 at Fort Knox, Kentucky
- Reorganized and redesignated 1 October 1957 as the 23d Engineer Battalion
- Relieved 15 August 1992 from assignment to the 3d Armored Division and assigned to the 1st Armored Division
- Inactivated 15 February 1997 in Germany and relieved from assignment to the 1st Armored Division
- Assigned 18 September 2015 to the 1st Brigade Combat Team, 2d Infantry Division, and activated at Fort Lewis, Washington
Campaign Participation Credit
- World War I
- St. Mihiel
- Meuse-Argonne
- Lorraine 1918
- World War II
- Normandy
- Northern France
- Rhineland
- Ardennes-Alsace
- Central Europe
- Southwest Asia
- Defense of Saudi Arabia
- Liberation and Defense of Kuwait
- Cease-Fire
Company A additionally entitled to:
- World War I
- Aisne-Marne
- Oise-Aisne
Decorations
- Valorous Unit Award, Streamer embroidered IRAQ 1990-1991
- Belgian Fourragere 1940
- Cited in the Order of the Day of the Belgian Army for action in BELGIUM
- Cited in the Order of the Day of the Belgian Army for action in the ARDENNES
By Order of the Secretary of the Army:
RICHARD W. STEWART
Chief of Military History