Lineage And Honors Information
Lineage and Honors Information as of 12 November 2013
3d ENGINEER BATTALION
- Constituted 2 February 1901 in the Regular Army as the 3d Battalion of Engineers
- Organized 25 March 1901 at Fort Totten, New York
- Reorganized and redesignated 1 July 1916 as the 3d Engineer Regiment
- Assigned 1 March 1921 to the Hawaiian Division (later redesignated as the 24th Infantry Division)
- Reorganized and redesignated 1 October 1941 as the 3d Engineer Battalion
- Redesignated 1 April 1942 as the 3d Engineer Combat Battalion
- Redesignated 10 March 1954 as the 3d Engineer Battalion
- Inactivated 15 April 1970 (less Company D) at Fort Riley, Kansas (Company D concurrently inactivated in Germany)
- Activated 21 September 1975 at Fort Stewart, Georgia
- Inactivated 15 February 1996 at Fort Stewart, Georgia, and relieved from assignment to the 24th Infantry Division
- Assigned 18 October 2013 to the 3d Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division, and activated at Fort Hood, Texas
CAMPAIGN PARTICIPATION CREDIT
- World War II
- Central Pacific
- New Guinea (with arrowhead)
- Leyte (with arrowhead)
- Luzon
- Southern Philippines (with arrowhead)
- Korean War
- UN Defensive
- UN Offensive
- CCF Intervention
- First UN Counteroffensive
- CCF Spring Offensive
- UN Summer-Fall Offensive
- Second Korean Winter
- Korea, Summer-Fall 1952
- Korea, Summer 1953
- Southwest Asia
- Defense of Saudi Arabia
- Liberation and Defense of Kuwait
DECORATIONS
- Presidential Unit Citation (Army), Streamer embroidered DEFENSE OF KOREA
- Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), Streamer embroidered KOREA 1951
- Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), Streamer embroidered SOUTHWEST ASIA 1990-1991
- Army Superior Unit Award, Streamer embroidered 1989-1990
- Philippine Presidential Unit Citation, Streamer embroidered 17 OCTOBER 1944 TO 4 JULY 1945
- Republic of Korea Presidential Unit Citation, Streamer embroidered PYONGTAEK
- Republic of Korea Presidential Unit Citation, Streamer embroidered KOREA 1952-1953
BY ORDER OF THE SECRETARY OF THE ARMY:
ROBERT J. DALESSANDRO
Director, Center of Military History