46th Engineer Battalion

Mission       Command Team      Unit Crest  

Lineage & Honors     Campaign Credits     Decorations    

Mission: 

On order, the 46^th Engineer Battalion deploys to command and control and to execute combat and general engineering in support of Army, Joint, and /or Coalition Forces.

[Top of Page]

46th Engineer Battalion Command Team


Commander: 

Lieutenant Colonel Robert J. Clark

Command Sergeant Major:

Sergeant Major Michael Sims

 [Top of Page]

Welcome Letter:

Welcome to the 46th Engineer Battalion!

Fort Polk is a proud and enduring installation.  It is the world's finest Joint Combat Training Center for light forces and serves as a world class power

Projection platform for rapid deployment forces.  Fort Polk is home to many FORSCOM units like ours that make up the Warrior Brigade.

Located in West Central Louisiana, Fort Polk is approximately seven miles southeast of Leesville, LA.  This caring installation emphasizes a solid

foundation for "quality of life" programs in an area considered a "Sportsman's Paradise".  Outdoor recreation, hunting and fishing are excellent.  The Toledo

Bend Reservoir, located near Fort Polk, is the largest man-made lake in the South providing opportunities for hunting, fishing, boating and camping.

You will be assigned to one of the Battalion’s six companies and two detachments.  The unit you are tentatively scheduled to be assigned to will appoint a sponsor for you and you should be contacted by him or her very soon.  Meanwhile you should communicate with the sponsor that contacts you to arrange for everything you need done in advance to your arrival and to get responses to any questions you may have regarding the installation and surrounding communities' facilities, organizations, schools, medical, social and other services available.

On arrival to Fort Polk, you should report to the Consolidated In and Out Processing, Building 1830, Alabama Avenue, South Fort.  They can be contacted by calling Either DSN 863-2207 or commercial (318) 531-2207.  During non-duty hours, report to the Magnolia Guest House, building 522, Utah Avenue, South Fort.  The Guest House may be contacted at (318) 531-2941.

Additional Contact information:

Telephone:  DSN 863-6354 

Commercial (337) 531-6354     

JRTC & Fort Polk website:  www.jrtc-polk.army.mil

SITES website:  www.dmdc.osd.mil

Address: 46TH Engineer Battalion

               8113 Mississippi Avenue

               Fort Polk, LA  71459

Again, welcome to Fort Polk and the Steel Spike Battalion! 

Sincerely,

ROBERT J. CLARK

LTC, EN

Commanding

“To Achieve”  “Steel Spike”

UNIT CREST:

The battalion coat of arms was designed by the Heraldic Services and Historical Division of the Office of the Quartermaster General. Wearing of the distinctive insignia was authorized in October 1951. The insignia is shaped as a shield. Centered upon a field of argent (silver) is placed a railway spike to indicate the battalion’s initial destination as an Engineer Railway Maintenance-of-Way Battalion. A fleur-de-lis surmounts the spike as tribute to the service performed in France during World War I. Flanking these emblems are gules (red) to complete the colors of the Corps of Engineers. (In black and white reproductions of the crest these gules should be indicated as parallel vertical lines.) The complete coat of arms includes above the shield, a silver winged wheel, taken from the World War I insignia of the Transportation Corps. Beneath the crest is displayed to motto of the battalion, "To Achieve."

[Top of Page]

UNIT LINEAGE AND HONORS:

Constituted 7 December 1917 in the National Army as the 46th Engineers. Organized March-April 1918 at Camp Sheridan, Alabama. Converted and redesignated 18 September 1918 as the 46th Regiment, Transportation Corps. Regiment broken up 12 November 1918 and its elements reorganized and designated as follows:

Regimental Headquarters and Headquarters Company disbanded Companies A, B, and C redesignated 12 December 1918 as the 29th, 30th, and 31st companies, Transportation Corps, respectively.

29th Company, Transportation Corps, demobilized 13 July 1919 at Camp Devens, Massachusetts, 30th and 31st Companies, Transportation Corps, demobilized 2 July and 11 July 1919, respectively, at Camp Gordon, Georgia .

Regiment reconstituted 1 October 1933 in the Regular Army as the 46th Engineers. Activated 14 July 1941 at Camp Bowie, Texas.

Redesignated 18 March 1943 as the 46th Engineer General Service Regiment.

Reorganized and resde3ignated 22 April 1944 as the 46th Engineer Construction Battalion.

Reorganized and redesignated 15 June 1947 as Headquarter and Headquarters and Service Company, 46th Engineer Construction Battalion (organic elements concurrently absorbed)

Inactivated 15 March 1950 in Japan

Redesignated 22 September 1950 as the 46th Engineer Construction Battalion and activated at Fort Sill, Oklahoma (organic elements concurrently reconstituted and activated)

Reorganized and redesignated 23 November 1953 as the 46th Engineer Battalion.

Transformed from legacy to modular battalion on February 16, 2010.

[Top of Page]

CAMPAIGN PARTICIPATION CREDIT

World War I
Streamer without inscription

World War II
East Indies
Papua
New Guinea
Leyte (with arrowhead)
Luzon

Vietnam
Defense
Counteroffensive
Counteroffensive, Phase II
Counteroffensive Phase III
Tet Counteroffensive
Counteroffensive Phase ,IV
Counteroffensive Phase, V
Counteroffensive Phase, VI
Tet 69/Counteroffensive
Summer-Fall 1969
Winter-Spring 1970
Sanctuary Counteroffensive
Counteroffensive, Phase VII
Consolidation I

Southwest Asia
Defense of Saudi Arabia
Liberation and Defense of Kuwait

Operation Iraqi Freedom

[Top of Page]

46^th ENGINEER BATTALION DECORATIONS

Presidential Unit Citation (Army), Streamer embroidered PAUPA
Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), Streamer embroidered LEYTE
Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), Streamer embroidered PHILIPPINE ISLANDS
Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), Streamer embroidered VIETNAM 1966-1967
Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), Streamer embroidered VIETNAM 1967
Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), embroidered SOUTHWEST ASIA
Philippine Presidential Unit Citation, Streamer embroidered 17 OCTOBER 1944 TO 4 JULY 1945
Republic of Vietnam Civil Action Honor Medal, First Class, Streamer embroidered VIETNAM 1967-1970

[Top of Page]

Email webmaster

Return to 1st MEB Home Page

Last Updated:  14 May 2013