Lineage And Honors Information
Lineage and Honors Information as of 12 September 2013
5th Engineer Battalion
- 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)
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, Streamer embroidered IRAQ 2004
- Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), Streamer embroidered SOUTHWEST ASIA 1990-1991
- Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), Streamer embroidered SOUTHWEST ASIA 2003
- Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), Streamer embroidered IRAQ 2005-2006
- Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), Streamer embroidered IRAQ 2008-2009
BY ORDER OF THE SECRETARY OF THE ARMY:
ROBERT J. DALESSANDRO
Director, Center of Military History