Lineage and Honors Information as of 26 March 2018

983d Engineer Battalion

  • Constituted 4 January 1944 in the Army of the United States as the 1260th Engineer Combat Battalion
  • Activated 10 February 1944 at Camp Pickett, Virginia
  • Inactivated 4 April 1946 at Camp Kilmer, New Jersey
  • Allotted 29 January 1947 to the Organized Reserves
  • Activated 24 February 1947 with Headquarters at Toledo, Ohio
  • (Organized Reserves redesignated 25 March 1948 as the Organized Reserve Corps; redesignated 9 July 1952 as the Army Reserve)
  • Redesignated 1 June 1948 as the 463d Engineer Combat Battalion
  • Reorganized and redesignated 20 July 1953 as the 463d Engineer Battalion
  • Reorganized and redesignated 29 December 1965 as the 983d Engineer Battalion
  • Location changed 9 September 1996 to Monclova, Ohio
  • Ordered into active military service 26-27 October 2004 at Monclova, Ohio; released from active military service 23-24 April 2006 and reverted to reserve status
  • (Organic elements inactivated 15 June 2007 at home stations; Support Company concurrently constituted and activated)
  • Ordered into active military service 16 March 2018 at Monclova, Ohio

Campaign Participation Credit

  • World War II
  • Rhineland
  • Ardennes-Alsace
  • Central Europe
  • War on Terrorism
  • Iraq:
  • Iraqi Governance

Decorations

None

By Order of the Secretary of the Army:

CHARLES R. BOWERY, JR.
Chief of Military History


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