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- Redesignated 11 June 1954 as the 497th Engineer Company, concurrently withdrawn from the Army Reserve and allotted to the Regular Army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
