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If we do go to war, psychological operations are going to be absolutely a critical, critical part of any campaign that we must get involved in. -- General H. Norman Schwarzkopf |
16th Engineer Battalion(250 total words in this text)(4666 Reads)  Redesignated 15 July 1940 as the 16th Engineer Battalion; concurrently assigned to the 1st Armored Division and activated at Fort Knox, Kentucky Redesignated 1 January 1942 as the 16th Armored Engineer Battalion (Companies D and E disbanded 20 July 1944 in Italy) Remainder of battalion inactivated 10-13 April 1946 at Camp Kilmer, New Jersey (Company D reconstituted 27 February 1951) 16th Armored Engineer Battalion activated 7 March 1951 at Fort Hood, Texas Redesignated 15 February 1957 as the 16th Engineer Battalion Inactivated (less Company A) 23 December 1957 at Fort Polk, Louisiana Activated (less Company A [active]) 3 February 1962 at Fort Hood, Texas Relieved 16 June 1991 from assignment to the 1st Armored Division and assigned to the 3d Infantry Division Relieved 16 November 1993 from assignment to the 3d Infantry Division Assigned 16 February 1997 to the 1st Armored Division 16th Engineer Battalion Honors Campaign Participation Credit World War II: Tunisia; Naples-Foggia; Anzio (with arrowhead); Rome-Arno; North Apennines; Po Valley Southwest Asia: Defense of Saudi Arabia; Liberation and Defense of Kuwait; Cease-Fire Company B additionally entitled to: World War II-EAME: Algeria-French Morocco (with arrowhead) Decorations Valorous Unit Award for IRAQ-KUWAIT Army Superior Unit Award for 1995-1996 Company A additionally entitled to: Presidential Unit Citation (Army) for MT. PORCHIA |
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1865:
Confederate General Joseph Johnston officially surrenders his army to General William T. Sherman at Durham Station, North Carolina.
1865: John Wilkes Booth is killed when Union soldiers track him down to a Virginia farm 12 days after he assassinated President Abraham Lincoln. 1865: Joseph E. Johnston surrenders the Army of Tennessee to Sherman. 1937: The ancient Basque town of Guernica in northern Spain is bombed by German planes. 1952: Armistice negotiations are resumed. 1971: The U.S. command in Saigon announces that the U.S. force level in Vietnam is 281,400 men, the lowest since July 1966. 1972: President Nixon, despite the ongoing communist offensive, announces that another 20,000 U.S. troops will be withdrawn from Vietnam in May and June, reducing authorized troop strength to 49,000. |
