Post by Anonymous Vet on Jan 6, 2004 12:34:37 GMT -5
589th Engr. BN
DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY HEADQUARTERS 589TH ENGINEER BATTALION (CONST) Ft. Hood, Texas 76544 On January 1947, a dusty file was removed from its storage place in the Office of the Chief of Military History. Its cover was labeled - 241st Engineer Combat Battalion - and it contained the history of an engineer organization which traced its origins to the 31st Engineer Company, first constituted in 1940 at Fort Belvoir, Virginia. With a stroke of a pen, the 241st designation became no more and when the file was replaced, it represented a newly conceived organization, the 589th Engineer Battalion. The file slept for nearly twenty years, and so did the 589th, until January 21, 1966 when the US Army III Corps announced at Fort Hood, Texas an in General Orders 22 the activation of the battalion under TOE 5-115E, 5-116E, 5-117E, and 5-118E. The new unit was to be assigned to the Fourth US Army, attached for all purposes to III Corps and Fort Hood and under the operational control and staff supervision of the III Corps Engineer. It was the very beginning of the 589th. A motto was embraced and the 589th became at once, the "Mountain Mover" Battalion. The siren sounded and on 12 Dec 1966, the battalion stiffened to react to Letter Order 12-15, III Corns and Fort Mood, which directed the deployment of the 589th Engineer Battalion to USARPAC with an Equipment Readiness Date of March 12,1967 and a Personnel Readiness Date of March 27, 1967. 4/29/67 Arrived in Viet Nam assigned to 45th Group, 18th Brigade Cha Rang, VN 3/68 Assigned to the 35th group . Phan Rang VN 11/1/71 Departed Viet Nam
DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY HEADQUARTERS 589TH ENGINEER BATTALION (CONST) Ft. Hood, Texas 76544 On January 1947, a dusty file was removed from its storage place in the Office of the Chief of Military History. Its cover was labeled - 241st Engineer Combat Battalion - and it contained the history of an engineer organization which traced its origins to the 31st Engineer Company, first constituted in 1940 at Fort Belvoir, Virginia. With a stroke of a pen, the 241st designation became no more and when the file was replaced, it represented a newly conceived organization, the 589th Engineer Battalion. The file slept for nearly twenty years, and so did the 589th, until January 21, 1966 when the US Army III Corps announced at Fort Hood, Texas an in General Orders 22 the activation of the battalion under TOE 5-115E, 5-116E, 5-117E, and 5-118E. The new unit was to be assigned to the Fourth US Army, attached for all purposes to III Corps and Fort Hood and under the operational control and staff supervision of the III Corps Engineer. It was the very beginning of the 589th. A motto was embraced and the 589th became at once, the "Mountain Mover" Battalion. The siren sounded and on 12 Dec 1966, the battalion stiffened to react to Letter Order 12-15, III Corns and Fort Mood, which directed the deployment of the 589th Engineer Battalion to USARPAC with an Equipment Readiness Date of March 12,1967 and a Personnel Readiness Date of March 27, 1967. 4/29/67 Arrived in Viet Nam assigned to 45th Group, 18th Brigade Cha Rang, VN 3/68 Assigned to the 35th group . Phan Rang VN 11/1/71 Departed Viet Nam
