Lineage and Honors Information as of 28 January 2015
10th Engineer Battalion
- 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 and 2d Battalions of Engineers (2d Battalion of Engineers--hereafter separate lineage)
- 1st Battalion of Engineers expanded, reorganized, and redesignated 1 July 1916 as the 1st Regiment of Engineers
- 1st Regiment of Engineers expanded 15 May 1917 to form the 1st, 6th, and 7th Regiments of Engineers (1st and 7th Regiments--hereafter separate lineages)
- 6th Regiment of Engineers redesignated 29 August 1917 as the 6th Engineers
- Assigned 1 October 1917 to the 3d Division
- Regiment broken up 12 October 1939 and its elements reorganized and redesignated as follows:
- 2d Battalion as the 10th Engineer Battalion, an element of the 3d Division (later redesignated as the 3d Infantry Division)
- (Headquarters and Headquarters and Service Company disbanded;
- 1st Battalion as the 6th Engineer Battalion--hereafter separate lineage)
- 10th Engineer Battalion redesignated 1 August 1942 as the 10th Engineer Combat Battalion
- Redesignated 1 March 1954 as the 10th Engineer Battalion
- Assigned 15 February 1996 to the 3d Infantry Division
- Inactivated 15 March 2004 at Fort Stewart, Georgia, and relieved from assignment to the 3d Infantry Division
- Assigned 17 January 2015 to the 1st Brigade Combat Team, 3d Infantry Division, and activated at Fort Stewart, Georgia
CAMPAIGN PARTICIPATION CREDIT
- Civil War
- Peninsula
- Antietam
- Fredericksburg
- Chancellorsville
- Wilderness
- Spotsylvania
- Cold Harbor
- Petersburg
- Appomattox
- Virginia 1863
- World War I
- Some Defensive
- Champagne-Marne
- Aisne-Marne
- St. Mihiel
- Meuse-Argonne
- Champagne 1918
- World War II
- Algeria-French Morocco
- Tunisia
- Sicily (with arrowhead)
- Naples-Foggia
- Anzio (with arrowhead)
- Rome-Arno
- Southern France
- (with arrowhead)
- Rhineland
- Ardennes-Alsace
- Central Europe
- Korean War
- 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
- War on Terrorism
- Campaigns to be determined
Company C additionally entitled to:
DECORATIONS
- Presidential Unit Citation (Army), Streamer embroidered COLMAR
- Presidential Unit Citation (Army), Streamer embroidered IRAQ 2003
- Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), Streamer embroidered KOREA 1950-1951
- French Croix de Guerre with Palm, World War I, Streamer embroidered CHAMPAGNE-MARNE, AISNE-MARNE
- French Croix de Guerre with Palm, World War II, Streamer embroidered COLMAR
- French Croix de Guerre, World War II, Fourragere
- Republic of Korea Presidential Unit Citation, Streamer embroidered UIJONGBU CORRIDOR
- Republic of Korea Presidential Unit Citation, Streamer embroidered IRON TRIANGLE
- Chryssoun Aristion Andrias (Bravery Gold Medal of Greece), Streamer embroidered KOREA
- Company D additionally entitled to:
- Presidential Unit Citation (Navy), Streamer embroidered CHOSIN
RESERVOIR
- Presidential Unit Citation (Navy), Streamer embroidered WONJU-
HWACHON
- Navy Unit Commendation, Streamer embroidered KOREA 1952-1953
BY ORDER OF THE SECRETARY OF THE ARMY:
RICHARD W. STEWART. PH.D.
Center of Military History
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