![]() Shield- Black and white were the old colors of the Engineer Corps.Crest- On a wreath of the colors Argent and Sable a fusil Gules on a bridge bent Argent.Sable, an anchor debruised by two oars saltirewise between in fess two increscents all Argent on a chief of the last embattled a cross Gules. Converted 17 October 2014 to become the 7th Brigade Engineer Battalion.Reflagged 14 June 2014 to become organic to 1st Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division.Headquarters and Headquarters Company activated 19 October 2006 at Fort Drum, New York (Support Company concurrently constituted and activated).Inactivated 15 December 1992 at Fort Polk, Louisiana, and relieved from assignment to the 5th Infantry Division.Activated 21 July 1975 at Fort Polk, Louisiana.Inactivated (less Company A) 15 December 1970 at Fort Carson, Colorado (Company A inactivated 6 August 1971 in Vietnam).Activated 19 February 1962 at Fort Carson, Colorado.Inactivated 1 June 1957 at Fort Ord, California.Redesignated 7 April 1954 as the 7th Engineer Battalion * Activated in Germany.Inactivated 1 September 1953 at Indiantown Gap Military Reservation, Pennsylvania.Activated 1 March 1951 at Indiantown Gap Military Reservation, Pennsylvania.Inactivated 30 April 1950 at Fort Jackson, South Carolina.Activated 6 July 1948 at Fort Jackson, South Carolina.Inactivated 20 September 1946 at Camp Campbell, Kentucky, and Ladd Field, Alaska.Redesignated as the 7th Engineer Combat Battalion.Redesignated 16 October 1939 as the 7th Engineer Battalion and activated at Fort Logan, Colorado.Company A inactivated 1 October 1933 at Fort Benning, Georgia.Inactivated (less Company A) 10 October 1921 at Camp Jackson, South Carolina.Assigned 17 November 1917 to the 5th Division.7th Regiment of Engineers redesignated 29 August 1917 as the 7th Engineers.1st Regiment of Engineers expanded to form the 1st, 6th, and 7th Regiments of Engineers (1st and 6th Regiments of Engineers-hereafter separate lineages).1st Battalion of Engineers expanded, reorganized, and redesignated 1 July 1916 as the 1st Regiment of Engineers.Expanded 14 March-7 June 1901 to form the 1st and 2d Battalions of Engineers (2d Battalion of Engineers-hereafter separate lineage).upcomingregionalsection.cms?parentid=61017241&genere=*:* /upcomingregionalsection.The battalion traces its history to a unit organized on 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) ![]()
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