Lineage And Honors Information
Lineage and Honors Information as of 14 April 2016
Headquarters and Headquarters Company
20th Engineer Brigade
(Castle)
- Organized 31 December 1861 in the Regular Army at Washington, D.C., 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 Battalion of Engineers (hereafter separate lineage) and the 2d Battalion of Engineers
- 2d Battalion of Engineers expanded 1 July-1 August 1916 to form the 2d Regiment of Engineers
- 2d Regiment of Engineers expanded 21 May-20 June 1917 as follows:
- Company C (see ANNEX), Company D (organized 24 August 1916 in Mexico), and part of Headquarters expanded 21 May 1917 to form the 5th Regiment of Engineers
- (Companies A and B and part of Headquarters expanded 21 May 1917 to form the 2d Regiment of Engineers; Companies E and F and part of Headquarters expanded 4-20 June 1917 to form the 4th Regiment 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 Humphreys, Virginia
- Relieved 1 February 1936 from assignment to the 7th Division and activated at Fort Belvoir, Virginia
- Redesignated 1 August 1942 as the 5th Engineer Combat Regiment
- Regiment broken up 27 December 1943 and its elements reorganized and redesignated as follows:
- Headquarters and Headquarters and Service Company as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 1128th Engineer Combat Group
- (1st and 2d Battalions as the 1277th and 1278th Engineer Combat Battalions, respectively--hereafter separate lineages)
- Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 1128th Engineer Combat Group, inactivated 30 December 1946 in Germany
- Redesignated 16 August 1950 as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 20th Engineer Brigade
- Activated 28 August 1950 at Camp Leonard Wood, Missouri
- Inactivated 12 December 1958 at Fort Bragg, North Carolina
- Activated 1 May 1967 at Fort Bragg, North Carolina
- Inactivated 20 September 1971 in Vietnam
- Activated 21 June 1974 at Fort Bragg, North Carolina
- ANNEX
- Constituted 3 August 1861 in the Regular Army as a company of engineers
- Organized in October 1861 at Boston, Massachusetts, as Company C, Corps of Engineers
- Redesignated 28 July 1866 as Company C, Battalion of Engineers
- Reorganized and redesignated 14 March 1901 as Company E, 2d Battalion of Engineers
- Reorganized and redesignated 1 August 1916 as Company C, 2d Regiment of Engineers
Campaign Participation Credit
- Civil War
- Peninsula
- Antietam
- Fredericksburg
- Chancellorsville
- Wilderness
- Spotsylvania
- Cold Harbor
- Petersburg
- Appomattox
- Virginia 1863
- War with Spain
- Santiago
- Philippine Insurrection
- Tarlac
- Mindanao
- Mexican Expedition
- Mexico 1916-1917
- World War I
- Lorraine 1918
- World War II
- Normandy
- Northern France
- Rhineland
- Ardennes-Alsace
- Central Europe
- Vietnam
- Counteroffensive, Phase III
- Tet Counteroffensive
- Counteroffensive, Phase IV
- Counteroffensive, Phase V
- Counteroffensive, Phase VI
- Tet 69/Counteroffensive
- Summer-Fall 1969
- Winter-Spring 1970
- Sanctuary Counteroffensive
- Counteroffensive, Phase VII
- Consolidation I
- Southwest Asia
- Defense of Saudi Arabia
- Liberation and Defense of Kuwait
- War on Terrorism
- Iraq:
- Iraqi Governance
- (Additional campaigns to be determined)
Decorations
- Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), Streamer embroidered VIETNAM 1967-1968
- Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), Streamer embroidered VIETNAM 1968
- Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), Streamer embroidered VIETNAM 1968-1970
- Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), Streamer embroidered VIETNAM 1970-1971
- Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), Streamer embroidered SOUTHWEST ASIA 1990-1991
- Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), Streamer embroidered IRAQ 2004-2005
- Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), Streamer embroidered IRAQ 2007-2008
- Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), Streamer embroidered SOUTHWEST ASIA 2011
- Republic of Vietnam Civil Action Honor Medal, First Class, Streamer embroidered VIETNAM 1967-1970
By Order of the Secretary of the Army:
CHARLES R. BOWERY, JR.
Chief of Military History