— 1st Battalion re-designated 1 October 1917 as the 1st Battalion, 146th Field Artillery.
— 2nd Battalion re-designated 12 November 1917 as the 2nd Battalion, 116th Engineer Regiment. — 3rd Battalion re-designated 5 October 1917 as the 146th Machine Gun Battalion. — Machine Gun Company re-designated 4 October 1917 as Company A, 147th Machine Gun Battalion. |
— 1st Battalion, 146th Field Artillery on 26 June 1919 at Fort D. A. Russell, Wyoming.
— 2nd Battalion, 116th Engineer Regiment on 1 March 1919 at Camp Dix, New Jersey. — 146th Machine Gun Battalion on 3 March 1919 at Camp Funston, Kansas. — Company A, 147th Machine Gun Battalion on 12 March 1919 at Camp Upton, New York. |
— Southern elements organized as the 3rd Battalion, 186th Infantry, with Headquarters Federally recognized 19 March 1922 at Boise.
— (Northern elements organized as the 1st Battalion, 148th Field Artillery, with Headquarters Federally recognized 15 March 1926 at Cour d'Alene; hereafter separate lineage.) |
— Regiment (less 2nd Battalion) as the 116th Engineer Battalion (Combat), and assigned to the 41st Infantry Division.
— 2nd Battalion as the 1st Battalion, 133rd Engineer Regiment (Combat), a non-divisional unit. |
— 116th Engineer Battalion (Combat) re-designated 18 March 1943 as the 116th Engineer Combat Battalion; inactivated 31 December 1945 at Hiro, Japan; relieved 17 June 1946 from assignment to the 41st Infantry Division; converted, reorganized, re-designated and Federally recognized 13 March 1947 as the 3rd Battalion, 183rd Infantry, with Headquarters at Idaho Falls.
— 1st Battalion, 133rd Engineer Regiment (Combat) reorganized and re-designated 1 February 1943 as the 133rd Engineer Combat Battalion; inactivated 16 April 1946 at Camp Kiilmer, New Jersey; re-designated (less Companies A and B – hereafter separate lineages) 3 July 1946 as the 133rd Engineer Combat Company; organized and Federally recognized 24 April 1947 at Rigby.
— 3rd Battalion, 183rd Infantry converted and re-designated 12 September 1949 as the 116th Combat Battalion (less Company A) (133rd Engineer Combat Company concurrently re-designated as Company A, 116th Engineer Combat Battalion).
— Ordered into active Federal service 25 August 1950 at Idaho Falls.
— 116th Engineer Battalion [NGUS] organized and Federally recognized 5 January 1953 with Headquarters at Idaho Falls.
— Reorganized and re-designated 15 March 1954 as the 116th Engineer Battalion (Combat).
— Released 20 January 1955 from active Federal service and reverted to State control; Federal recognition concurrently withdrawn from the 116th Engineer Battalion (NGUS).
— Ordered into active Federal service 13 May 1968 at home stations; released 6 September from active Federal service and reverted to State control.
HOME AREA: Southeastern Idaho |
First UN counteroffensive
CCF spring offensive UN summer–fall offensive Second Korean winter |
Korea, summer–fall 1952
Third Korean winter Korea, summer 1953 |
Tunisia
Naples-Foggia Rome-Arno |
Rhineland
Ardennes-Alsace Central Europe |
World War I
Champagne 1918 Champagne-Marne Aisne-Marne St. Mihiel Meuse-Argonne |
World War II
East Indies Bismark Archipelago (w/ Bronze Arrowhead) Luzon (w/ Bronze Arrowhead) Leyte |
M. B. RIDGWAY
General, Unites States Army, Chief of Staff |
W. C. WESTMORLAND,
General, United States Army, Chief of Staff |