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811th ENGINEER COMPANY

  • Organized 24 May 1881 in the Ohio National Guard at Lancaster as Company E, 6th Infantry (Mt. Pleasant Guards)
  • Redesignated 22 December 1885 as Company I, 14th Infantry
  • Mustered into Federal service 9 May 1898 at Camp Bushnell, Ohio as Company I, 4th Ohio Volunteer Infantry; mustered out of Federal service 20 January 1899 at Columbus and reverted to state control as Company I, 14th Infantry
  • Redesignated 14 April 1899 as Company I, Unattached Infantry
  • Redesignated 14 July 1899 as Company I, 4th Infantry
  • Redesignated 9 July 1900 as Company F, 7th Separate Infantry Battalion
  • Redesignated 20 June 1901 as Company F, 7th Infantry
  • Redesignated 2 June 1913 as Company L, 4th Infantry
  • Mustered into Federal service 11 July 1916 at Camp Willis, Ohio; mustered out of Federal service 3 March 1917 at Fort Wayne, Michigan
  • Called into Federal service 15 July 1917; drafted into Federal service 5 August 1917
  • Reorganized and redesignated 20 August 1917 as Company L, 166th Infantry, an element of the 42d Division
  • Demobilized 17 May 1919 at Camp Sherman, Ohio
  • Reorganized and Federally recognized 23 February 1921 in the Ohio National Guard at Lancaster as the 2d Separate Company of Infantry
  • Redesignated 1 May 1921 as Company G, 4th Infantry
  • Reorganized and redesignated 1 July 1921 as Company G, 166th Infantry, an element of the 37th Division
  • Inducted into Federal service 15 October 1940 at Lancaster
  • Relieved 1 February 1942 from assignment to the 37th Division (37th Division concurrently redesignated as the 37th Infantry Division)
  • Inactivated 22 February 1944 at Camp Hood, Texas
  • Reorganized and Federally recognized 12 May 1947 in the Ohio National Guard at Lancaster as Company G, 166th Infantry
  • Reorganized and redesignated 1 September 1959 as Company D, 1st Battle Group, 166th Infantry, an element of the 37th Infantry Division
  • Reorganized and redesignated 1 April 1963 as Company A, 1st Battalion, 166th Infantry
  • Consolidated 1 October 1967 with the 2d Rifle and Weapons Platoon, Company A, 1st Battalion, 166th Infantry (see ANNEX) and consolidated unit designated as Company A, 1st Battalion, 166th Infantry; location concurrently changed to Circleville
  • (1st Battalion, 166th Infantry, assigned 15 February 1968 to the 38th Infantry Division)
  • Location changed 1 September 1968 to Tarlton
  • Converted, reorganized, and redesignated 1 February 1972 as Company D, 216th Engineer Battalion, and relieved from assignment to the 38th Infantry Division
  • Reorganized and redesignated 1 January 1993 as Detachment 1, Company C, 216th Engineer Battalion
  • Reorganized and redesignated 1 April 1993 as Detachment 1, Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 216th Engineer Battalion
  • Reorganized and redesignated 1 September 1997 as Detachment 1, Company A, 216th Engineer Battalion
  • Ordered into active Federal service 18 December 2003 at Tarlton; released from active Federal service 16 April 2005 and reverted to state control
  • Reorganized and redesignated 1 September 2007 as the 811th Engineer Company
  • Location changed 15 June 2010 to Amanda
  • ANNEX
  • Organized and Federally recognized 12 May 1921 in the Ohio National Guard at Circleville as the 145th Motor Company, 37th Division Quartermaster Trains, an element of the 37th Division
  • Converted, reorganized, and redesignated 15 May 1936 as Company C, 112th Quartermaster Regiment
  • Converted, reorganized, and redesignated 9 February 1937 as Headquarters Battery, 136th Field Artillery
  • Reorganized and redesignated 12 May 1937 as Headquarters Battery and Combat Train, 3d Battalion, 136th Field Artillery
  • Reorganized and redesignated 8 June 1937 as Service Battery, 136th Field Artillery
  • Inducted into Federal service 15 October 1940 at Circleville
  • Disbanded 1 February 1942
  • Reorganized and Federally recognized 8 May 1947 in the Ohio National Guard at Circleville as Company I, 166th Infantry
  • Reorganized and redesignated 1 September 1959 as the 1st Rifle and Weapons Platoon, Company D, 1st Battle Group, 166th Infantry, an element of the 37th Infantry Division
  • Reorganized and redesignated 1 February 1960 as the 2d Rifle and Weapons Platoon, Company A, 1st Battle Group, 166th Infantry
  • Reorganized and redesignated 1 April 1963 as the 2d Rifle and Weapons Platoon, Company A, 1st Battalion, 166th Infantry

HOME STATION: Amanda

CAMPAIGN PARTICIPATION CREDIT

  • War with Spain
  • Puerto Rico
  • World War I
  • Champagne-Marne
  • Aisne-Marne
  • St. Mihiel
  • Meuse-Argonne
  • Lorraine 1918
  • Champagne 1918
  • War on Terrorism
  • Iraq:
  • Transition of Iraq
  • Iraqi Governance

DECORATIONS

  • Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), Streamer embroidered IRAQ 2004

BY ORDER OF THE SECRETARY OF THE ARMY:

ROBERT J. DALESSANDRO
Director, Center of Military History


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