Unit Information

497th Engineer Company

Mission: O/O, 497th deploys and conducts engineering operations in support of the maneuver commander.

Unit contact: 719-524-8110

unit history:

  • Constituted 18 November 1942 in the Army of the United States as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 1051st Engineer Port Construction and Repair Group
  • Activated 25 November 1942 at Fort Screven, Georgia
  • Redesignated 22 December 1944 as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 1051st Engineer Port Construction and Repair
  • Inactivated 19 October 1946 in France
  • Redesignated 8 April 1948 as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 497th Engineer Port Construction and Repair, and allotted to the Organized Reserve Corps
  • Activated 5 May 1948 at Portland, Oregon
  • Inactivated 18 September 1950 at Portland, Oregon
  • Organized Reserve Corps redesignated 9 July 1952 as the Army Reserve
  • Redesignated 11 June 1954 as the 497th Engineer Company, concurrently withdrawn from the Army Reserve and allotted to the Regular Army
  • Activated 30 June 1954 at Fort Belvoir, Virginia
  • Inactivated 26 April 1972 in Vietnam
  • Activated 21 February 1973 at Fort Eustis, Virginia
  • Inactivated 15 September 1995 at Fort Eustis, Virginia
  • Will be activated 16 October 2010 at Fort Carson, Colorado

campaign participation credit

World War II
  • Sicily
  • Naples-Foggia (with arrowhead
  • Rome-Arno
  • Southern France
  • Rhineland
  • Central Europe
Vietnam
  • Defense
  • Counteroffensive
  • Counteroffensive, Phase II
  • Counteroffensivem, 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
  • Consolidation II
  • Cease-Fire
Decorations
  • Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), Streamer embroidered European Theater
  • Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), Streamer embroidered Vietnam 1965-1967
  • Republic of Vietnam Civil Action Honor Medal, First Class, Streamer embroidered Vietnam 1969
  • Republic of Vietnam Civil Action Honor Medal, First Class, Streamer embroidered Vietnam 1970-1971