Lineage and Honors Information as of 22 March 2021

Headquarters and Headquarters Company
36th Engineer Brigade

  • Constituted 1 October 1933 in the Regular Army as the 36th Engineers
  • Activated 1 June 1941 at Plattsburg Barracks, New York
  • Redesignated 1 August 1942 as the 36th Engineer Combat Regiment
  • Regiment broken up 15 February 1945 and its elements reorganized and redesignated as follows:
  • Headquarters and Headquarters and Service Company as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 36th Engineer Combat Group
  • (1st, 2d, and 3d Battalions as the 2826th, 2827th, and 2828th Engineer Combat Battalions, respectively -- hereafter separate lineages)
  • Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 36th Engineer Combat Group, inactivated 30 November 1946 in Austria
  • Activated 5 May 1947 at Fort Lewis, Washington
  • Reorganized and redesignated 10 April 1953 as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 36th Engineer Group
  • Inactivated 30 May 1972 at Fort Lewis, Washington
  • Activated 1 July 1973 at Fort Benning, Georgia
  • Reorganized and redesignated 16 June 2006 as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 36th Engineer Brigade

Campaign Participation Credit

  • World War II
  • Algeria-French Morocco
  • (with arrowhead)
  • Tunisia
  • Sicily (with arrowhead)
  • Naples-Foggia (with arrowhead)
  • Anzio (with arrowhead)
  • Rome-Arno
  • Southern France (with arrowhead)
  • Rhineland
  • Ardennes-Alsace
  • Central Europe
  • Korean War
  • UN Offensive
  • CCF Intervention
  • First UN Counteroffensive
  • CCF Spring Offensive
  • UN Summer-Fall Offensive
  • Second Korean Winter
  • Korea, Summer-Fall 1952
  • Third Korean Winter
  • Korea, Summer 1953
  • Southwest Asia
  • Defense of Saudi Arabia
  • Liberation and Defense of Kuwait
  • Armed Forces Expeditions
  • Somalia
  • War on Terrorism
  • Afghanistan:
  • Consolidation II
  • Iraq:
  • Iraqi Governance
  • National Resolution
  • Iraqi Sovereignty
  • New Dawn

Decorations

  • Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), Streamer embroidered KOREA 1953
  • Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), Streamer embroidered KOREA 1954
  • Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), Streamer embroidered SOUTHWEST ASIA 1990-1991
  • Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), Streamer embroidered IRAQ 2005-2006
  • Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), Streamer embroidered AFGHANISTAN 2007-2008
  • Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), Streamer embroidered IRAQ 2010-2011
  • Republic of Korea Presidential Unit Citation, Streamer embroidered KOREA 1950-1952

By Order of the Secretary of the Army:

CHARLES R. BOWERY, JR.
Chief of Military History


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