LINEAGE AND HONORS

• Constituted 19 March 1917 in the Enlisted Reserve Corps as the 1st Reserve Engineers
• Organized 6 April-26 May 1917 at New York, New York
• Ordered into active military service by companies 22 May-2 June 1917 at Fort Totten, New York
• Withdrawn 9 June 1917 from allotment to the Enlisted Reserve Corps and allotted to the National Army; concurrently redesignated as the 1st Engineers
• Redesignated 13 July 1917 as the 11th Engineers
• Demobilized 6 May 1919 at Camp Upton, New York
• Reconstituted 4 November 1920 and expanded to form the 363d Engineers in the Organized Reserves (hereafter separate lineage) and the 11th Engineers in the Regular Army
• 11th Engineers activated 20 November 1920 in the Panama Canal Zone
• Assigned 2 June 1921 to the Panama Canal Division
• Relieved 15 April 1932 from assignment to the Panama Canal Division
• Reorganized and redesignated 1 April 1943 as the 11th Engineer Battalion
• Reorganized and redesignated 23 September 1943 as the 11th Engineer Combat Battalion
• Inactivated 30 November 1946 in Austria
• Activated 15 March 1950 in Japan
• Reorganized and redesignated 15 March 1954 as the 11th Engineer Battalion
• Inactivated 15 August 1989 at Fort Belvoir, Virginia
• Assigned 17 July 1992 to the 24th Infantry Division and activated at Fort Stewart, Georgia
• Relieved 15 February 1996 from assignment to the 24th Infantry Division and assigned to the 3d Infantry Division
• Inactivated 15 March 2004 at Fort Stewart, Georgia, and relieved from assignment to the 3d Infantry Division
• Headquarters and Headquarters Company activated 16 January 2007 at Fort Benning, Georgia, HHC, continues to provide support to the battalion: previous and current commander’s and First Sergeants include, CPT Charles Gallion, CPT Keith Bragg, CPT Vladimir SotoSanchez, and CPT Stephanie Radford. 1SG Richard Hearne, 1SG Bruce Machado, 1SG Donald Finley Jr., 1SG Charles Fuller, and SFC Joe Fussell.

CAMPAIGN PARTICIPATION CREDIT

• World War I: Cambrai; St. Mihiel; Meuse-Argonne
• World War II: American Theater, streamer without inscription; Rhineland; Ardennes-Alsace; Central Europe
• Korean War: UN Defensive; UN Offensive; 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
• War on Terrorism: Campaigns to be determined

DECORATIONS

• Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army) for KOREA 1950-1951
• Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army) for KOREA 1953-1954
• Army Superior Unit Award for 1994
• Army Superior Unit Award for 2001
• Presidential Unit Citation (Army) for IRAQ 2003