10th Engineer Battalion (United States)
The 10th Engineer Battalion is a unit of the United States Army that deploys to designated contingency areas and conducts combat and/or stability operations in support of a brigade combat team. It is a divisional mechanized combat engineer unit, composed of four line companies and a headquarters company. As of 17 January 2015, the battalion exists as the 10th Brigade Engineer Battalion at Fort Stewart, GA under the 1st Armored Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division.
Unit insignia
History
Lineage
Organized 31 December 1861 in the Regular Army at Washington, D.C., from new and existing companies of engineers as a provisional engineer battalion- Expanded 14 March – 7 June 1901 to form the 1st and 2nd Battalions of Engineers
- 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 the 7th Regiments of Engineers
- 6th Regiment of Engineers redesignated 29 August 1917 as the 6th Engineers
- Assigned 1 October 1917 to the 3rd Division
- Regiment broken up 12 October 1939 and its elements reorganized and redesignated as follows:
- * 2nd Battalion as the 10th Engineer Battalion, an element of the 3rd Division ;
- * Headquarters and Headquarters and Service Company disbanded; and
- * 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 3rd Infantry Division
- Inactivated 15 March 2004 at Fort Stewart, Georgia, and relieved from assignment to the 3rd Infantry Division
- Assigned 17 January 2015 to the 1st Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division, and activated at Fort Stewart, Georgia
Honors
Campaign participation credit
- Civil War
- * Peninsula
- * Antietam
- * Fredericksburg
- * Wilderness
- * Spotsylvania
- * Cold Harbor
- * Petersburg
- * Appomattox
- * Virginia 1863
- World War I
- * Somme Defensive
- * Champagne-Marne
- * Aisne-Marne
- * St. Mihiel
- * Meuse-Argonne
- * Champagne 1918
- World War II
- * Algeria-French Morocco
- * Tunisia
- * Sicily
- * Naples-Foggia
- * Anzio
- * Rome-Arno
- * Southern France
- * 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
- * Desert Shield/Desert Storm 1991
- War on Terrorism
- * Campaigns to be determined
Decorations
- Presidential Unit Citation
- * Streamer embroidered COLMAR
- * Streamer embroidered IRAQ 2003
- Meritorious Unit Commendation
- * Streamer embroidered KOREA 1950–1951
- French Croix de Guerre with Palm
- * Streamer embroidered CHAMPAGNE-MARNE, AISNE-MARNE
- French Croix de Guerre with Palm
- * Streamer embroidered COLMAR
- French Croix de Guerre
- * Fourragere
- Republic of Korea Presidential Unit Citation
- * Streamer embroidered UIJONGBU CORRIDOR
- * Streamer embroidered IRON TRIANGLE
- Chryssoun Aristion Andrias
- * Streamer embroidered KOREA
Fallen Soldiers (known)
CPT Stanley E. Larson
Sgt. Albert J. Warner
Pfc. Dorvall J. Walter
Pfc. Donald J. Towslee
2Lt. William A. Thomas
T/5. Jack H. Taylor
Pfc. Rex F. Stokes
Cpl. Fred C. Standish
Sgt. Israel E. Selph
Pvt. Gustave Ruiz
Pvt. Ralph W. Quinnan
Pfc. Willy Pederssen
Pvt. Walter F. Massey
Pfc. Grant H. Martin
1Lt. Joseph N. Marcantonio
Pfc. Lawrence E. Le Duc
Pvt. George B. King
Pvt. Cullie B. Johnson
Pvt. Thomas J. Houlihan
Pvt. John M. Hodge
Sgt. James R. Graybeal
1Lt. Vernon H. Evans
Pvt. Robert A. Engle
Pfc. Robert H. Dobbins
Pfc. Edward J. De Stefano
Pvt. Leonard F. Cwynar
Pvt. Cyril J. Chevalier
Pvt. Richard Carlson
Sgt. Wyatt D. Bassett
Pvt. Ted Barabas
Sgt. Donald H. Tosh
Pfc. Rafael Ordonez
T/5. Albert J. Klein
Sgt. Kenneth A. Stoner
1Lt. Leroy F. Sasse
Cpl. Grover G. Shepherd
T/5. Leon J. Weems
T/5. Thomas J. Redmond
S/Sgt. James M Renfro
2Lt. Earl H. Ostmeyer
Pfc. Harold C. Krueger
KOREA
PV2 John A. Aimer, 29 Nov 1950
SFC Ellis L. Aldridge, 4 Oct 1951
PFC Herbert Armbruster, 29 Nov 1950
PFC Claude E. Bachtell, 23 Mar 1951
PFC Walter J. Ball, 21 Nov 1950
PV2 Bernard A. Beemon, 28 Nov 1950
CPL Arthur L. Belt, 28 Nov 1950
MSG Leonard J. Best, 29 Nov 1950
SGT Donald Bombardier, 28 Nov 1950
CPL Charles E. Burba, 28 Nov 1950
1LT Robert W. Carney, 25 Feb 1951
PV2 Sammie L. Clifton, 26 Mar 1951
PFC Josue, Cortes-Boisjoli, 5 Jun 1951
CPL Thomas R. Davison, 31 Dec 1951
1LT Max L. DeRossett, 4 Oct 1951
PV2 Charles Drengberg, 29 Nov 1950
CPL James D. Eroddy, 12 Sep 1952
PFC Robert W. Faris, 29 Nov 1950
SGT Noe Franco, 10 May 1953
PFC John S. Grover, 24 Mar 1951
PV2 Salvador M. Guzman, 13 Jun 1953
PFC James E. Hartley Jr., 28 Nov 1950
CPL Sonnie L. Holmes, 4 Nov 1951
PV2 Daniel B. Jewell, 28 Nov 1950
PFC Daniel R. Lambert, 4 Oct 1951
SGT Homer M. McDaniel, 28 Nov 1950
CPL Harry T. McGonigle, 21 Nov 1950
CPL Larry O. Merrill, 28 Nov 1950
CPL Norman B. Miller Jr., 29 Nov 1950
CPL Sylvian A. Moyers, 24 Apr 1951
SFC Henry C. Nunnery, 28 Nov 1950
PV2 Raymond R. O'Connor, 13 Jun 1953
CPL Thomas F. Palmer, 29 Nov 1950
PV2 Jerry B. Powers, 28 Nov 1950
CPL James A. Prater, 16 Mar 1951
PV2 Roy Ray Jr., 27 Apr 1953
SFC Oliver P. Riels, 2 Dec 1950
PFC Donnie F. Roby, 28 Nov 1950
PV2 Robert F. Ruder, 13 Jun 1953
CPL William M. Scalf, 4 Nov 1951
1LT Carl J. Schiltz, 24 Nov 1950
CPL Glenn A. Schreiner, 1 Dec 1951
PV2 Ben T. Smith Jr., 29 Nov 1950
CPL Charles L. Somers, 21 Nov 1950
PFC Earnest A. Taylor, 21 Nov 1950
SFC Raymond R. Thornton, 28 Nov 1950
MSG James M. Traylor, 18 Dec 1950
PV2 Charles C. Van Elsberg, 21 Nov 1950
CPL Nick Vezakis Jr., 16 Oct 1951
2LT Thomas D. Wood, 15 Jun 1953
PV2 Steve A. Zagurskie, 23 Apr 1951
PFC Salvatore J. Zucca, 25 Jul 1953
Commanders
LTC John P. Kuspa, 1985–1987LTC Jerry Samples, 1987–1989
LTC Geoffrey Van Epps, 2015
LTC Jason M. Whitten, 2015–2017
LTC Scott F. Swilley, 2017–2019
LTC Sean A. Wittmeier, 2019–Present