Lineage And Honors Information
Lineage and Honors Information as of 12 December 2014
82d Engineer Battalion
- Parent unit constituted 15 July 1940 in the Regular Army as the 39th Engineers
- Activated 25 April 1942 at Camp Bowie, Texas
- Redesignated 1 August 1942 as the 39th Engineer Combat Regiment
- Regiment broken up 1 March 1945 and elements reorganized and redesignated as follows:
- 1st Battalion as the 404th Engineer Combat Battalion
- (Headquarters and Headquarters and Service Company, 39th Engineer Combat Regiment as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 39th Engineer Combat Group; 2d Battalion as the 643d Engineer Combat Battalion--hereafter separate lineages)
- 404th Engineer Combat Battalion inactivated 13 October 1945 at Camp Kilmer, New Jersey
- Redesignated 30 January 1947 as the 82d Engineer Combat Battalion
- Redesignated 23 November 1954 as the 82d Engineer Battalion
- Activated 17 January 1955 at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri
- Assigned 16 June 1991 to the 3d Infantry Division
- Relieved 15 February 1996 from assignment to the 3d Infantry Division and assigned to the 1st Infantry Division
- Inactivated 15 July 2006 in Germany, and relieved from assignment to the 1st Infantry Division
- Assigned 17 October 2014 to the 2d Brigade Combat Team, 1st Infantry Division, and activated at Fort Riley, Kansas
CAMPAIGN PARTICIPATION CREDIT
- World War II
- Sicily (with arrowhead)
- Naples-Foggia
- Anzio
- Rome-Arno
- North Apennines
- Po Valley
- Southwest Asia
- Defense of Saudi Arabia
- Liberation and Defense of Kuwait
- Cease-Fire
- War on Terrorism
- Campaigns to be determined
DECORATIONS
- Valorous Unit Award, Streamer embroidered IRAQ 1991
- Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), Streamer embroidered ITALY
- Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), Streamer embroidered IRAQ 2004-2005
- Army Superior Unit Award, Streamer embroidered 1997
BY ORDER OF THE SECRETARY OF THE ARMY:
RICHARD W. STEWART, PH.D.
Center of Military History