Lineage And Honors Information
Lineage and Honors Information as of 25 June 2014
29th Engineer Battalion
(Wayfinders)
- Constituted 18 May 1917 in the National Army as the 29th Engineer Regiment
- Organized September 1917 – November 1918 at various stations as the 29th Engineers
- (2d Battalion redesignated 1 December 1918 as the 1st Battalion, 74th Engineers -- hereafter separate lineage)
- Demobilized 13 July – 2 September 1919 at Camp Upton, New York, and Camp Humphreys, Virginia
- Reconstituted 14 July 1923 in the Regular Army as the 29th Engineer Battalion; concurrently consolidated with the 17th Engineer Battalion (activated 19 September 1921 at Camp Humphreys, Virginia) and consolidated unit designated as the 29th Engineer Battalion
- Redesignated 7 November 1941 as the 29th Engineer Topographic Battalion
- Headquarters, Headquarters and Service Company, 29th Engineer Topographic Battalion, reorganized and redesignated 20 June 1944 as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 29th Engineer Base Topographic Battalion (remainder of battalion -- hereafter separate lineage)
- Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 29th Engineer Base Topographic Battalion, redesignated 15 January 1953 as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 29th Engineer Battalion
- Redesignated 22 March 1954 as Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment, 29th Engineer Battalion
- Inactivated 15 September 1972 on Ford Island, Hawaii
- Redesignated 15 August 1980 as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 29th Engineer Battalion, and activated at Fort Shafter, Hawaii
- Inactivated 16 October 2007 at Fort Shafter, Hawaii
- Assigned 16 October 2014 to the 3d Brigade Combat Team, 25th Infantry Division, and activated at Schofield Barracks, Hawaii (lettered companies concurrently constituted and activated)
CAMPAIGN PARTICIPATION CREDIT
- World War I
- Streamer without inscription
- World War II
- Asiatic-Pacific Theater, Streamer without inscription
DECORATIONS
- Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), Streamer embroidered PACIFIC AREA 1967-1968
- Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), Streamer embroidered PACIFIC AREA 1968-1972
BY ORDER OF THE SECRETARY OF THE ARMY:
RICHARD W. STEWART, PH.D.
Chief of Military History