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The 7th Engineer Battalion is a unit of the United States Army located at Fort Drum, New York. This battalion falls under the 10th Mountain Division's 1st Brigade Combat Team. The 7th Engineer Battalion was reactivated on 27 October 2006 at Fort Drum, New York under the 20th Engineer Brigade. The Battalion and its assigned companies deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan in 2009, for Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom. In Iraq, the battalion provided tactical construction in support of United States Division - South, partnered with the Iraqi Army's 10th and 14th Field Engineer Regiments, and enhanced the civil capacity of Iraq via technical support for reconstruction projects. In Afghanistan, battalion soldiers conducted route clearance operations and provided firefighting support in the southern and eastern provinces, in support of NATO security operations. The battalion deployed again to eastern Afghanistan to conduct route clearance operations from October 2011 to October 2012. On 17 October 2014, the 7th Engineer Battalion converted to become the 7th Brigade Engineer Battalion. This task organization includes the 630th Clearance Company, the Brigade's Military Intelligence Company, and the Brigade's Signal Company. ==Lineage== 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) * 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 6th Regiments of Engineers—hereafter separate lineages) * 7th Regiment of Engineers redesignated 29 August 1917 as the 7th Engineers * Assigned 17 November 1917 to the 5th Division * Inactivated (less Company A) 10 October 1921 at Camp Jackson, South Carolina *Company A inactivated 1 October 1933 at Fort Benning, Georgia * Redesignated 16 October 1939 as the 7th Engineer Battalion and activated at Fort Logan, Colorado * Redesignated 28 May 1943 as the 7th Engineer Combat Battalion * Inactivated 20 September 1946 at Camp Campbell, Kentucky, and Ladd Field, Alaska * Activated 6 July 1948 at Fort Jackson, South Carolina * Inactivated 30 April 1950 at Fort Jackson, South Carolina * Activated 1 March 1951 at Indiantown Gap Military Reservation, Pennsylvania * Inactivated 1 September 1953 at Indiantown Gap Military Reservation, Pennsylvania * Redesignated 7 April 1954 as the 7th Engineer Battalion * Activated 25 May 1954 in Germany * Inactivated 1 June 1957 at Fort Ord, California * Activated 19 February 1962 at Fort Carson, Colorado * Inactivated (less Company A) 15 December 1970 at Fort Carson, Colorado (Company A inactivated 6 August 1971 in Vietnam) * Activated 21 July 1975 at Fort Polk, Louisiana * Inactivated 15 December 1992 at Fort Polk, Louisiana, and relieved from assignment to the 5th Infantry Division * Headquarters and Headquarters Company activated 19 October 2006 at Fort Drum, New York (Support Company concurrently constituted and activated) * Reflagged 14 June 2014 to become organic to 1st Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division * Converted 17 October 2014 to become the 7th Brigade Engineer Battalion 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「7th Engineer Battalion (United States)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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