31st Engineer Battalion
Lineage and Honors Information as of 1 October 2007
31st Engineer Battalion Lineage
Constituted 1 July 1940 in the Regular Army as the 31st Engineer Company and activated at Fort Belvoir, Virginia
Reorganized and redesignated 15 December 1941 as the 31st Engineer Battalion
Reorganized and redesignated 29 April 1942 as the 31st Engineers
Redesignated 1 August 1942 as the 31st Engineer Combat Regiment
Regiment broken up 22 March 1943 and its elements reorganized and redesignated as follows:
1st Battalion as the 31st Engineer Combat Battalion
(Headquarters and Headquarters and Service Company as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 1114th Engineer Combat Group; 2d Battalion as the 241st Engineer Combat Battalion -- hereafter separate lineages)
31st Engineer Combat Battalion inactivated 9 March 1946 at Camp Kilmer, New Jersey
Activated 10 March 1951 at Camp McCoy, Wisconsin
Reorganized and redesignated 8 June 1953 as the 31st Engineer Battalion
Inactivated 15 December 1956 at Fort Carson, Colorado
Activated 17 June 1963 at Fort Chaffee, Arkansas
Inactivated 12 March 1972 at Fort Lewis, Washington
Headquarters transferred 30 September 1986 to the United States Army Training and Doctrine Command and activated at Fort Leonard
Wood, Missouri
Inactivated 2 October 1993 at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri
Activated 1 October 2001 at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri
Inactivated 1 October 2002 at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri
Activated 1 October 2005 at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri
31st Engineer Battalion Honors
Campaign Participation Credit
World War II: Rhineland; Ardennes-Alsace; Central Europe
Vietnam: 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; Consolidation II
Decorations
Valorous Unit Award, Streamer embroidered FISH HOOK
Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), Streamer embroidered VIETNAM 1968
Republic of Vietnam Civil Action Honor Medal, First Class, Streamer embroidered VIETNAM 1968-1970