unit history korea 10th combat engineers

I have wonderful memories of working long 12-hour days, six days a week, with one weekend off every 8 to 10 weeks. For a farm girl with three sisters it was a great way to get a college education. I joined the Army because it would pay for two years of college and then I would serve three years of active duty. There was a time when 24 hours seemed like forever and a week could be eternity. I was living on my parents' farm near the little town of Seneca, South Dakota located in western Faulk County. Shortly after high school graduation, at age 18, I was drafted. Tales of the Vietnam War from the Veterans who lived it.īelow, you will find an illustration of the Vietnam War told by the sons and daughters of South Dakota as they lived it through personal experience, heroic actions and tragic loss. Free Highly Rural Transportation Program.

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Redesignated 1 March 1954 as the 10th Engineer BattalionĪssigned 15 February 1996 to the 3d Infantry DivisionĬivil War: Peninsula Antietam Fredericksburg Chancellorsville Wilderness Spotsylvania Cold Harbor Petersburg Appomattox Virginia 1863 (Headquarters and Headquarters and Service Company disbanded 1st Battalion as the 6th Engineer Battalion - hereafter separate lineage)ġ0th Engineer Battalion redesignated 1 August 1942 as the 10th Engineer Combat Battalion Regiment broken up 12 October 1939 and its elements reorganized and redesignated as follows:Ģd Battalion as the 10th Engineer Battalion, an element of the 3d Division (later redesignated as the 3d Infantry Division) Organized 31 December 1861 in the Regular Army at Washington, District of Columbia, from new and existing companies of engineers as a provisional engineer battalion (constituted 28 July 1866 as the Battalion of Engineers)Įxpanded 14 March-7 June 1901 to form the 1st and 2d Battalions of Engineers (2d Battalion of Engineers - hereafter separate lineage)ġst Battalion of Engineers expanded, reorganized, and redesignated 1 July 1916 as the 1st Regiment of Engineersġst Regiment of Engineers expanded to form the 1st, 6th, and 7th Regiments of Engineers (1st and 7th Regiments - hereafter separate lineages)Ħth Regiment of Engineers redesignated 29 August 1917 as the 6th EngineersĪssigned 1 October 1917 to the 3d Division 10th Engineer Battalion(397 total words in this text)

Unit history korea 10th combat engineers