7th Engineer Brigade (United States)

The 7th Engineer Brigade of the US Army was activated at Fort Belvoir in 1948.[1] Starting in 1951, while redesignated as the 7th Engineer Aviation Brigade, the brigade was responsible for all United States Aviation construction in France, Germany, and Italy. Starting in 1956, renamed back to 7th Engineer Brigade, the unit managed construction for NATO, to build up Western Europe from the disaster of World War 2.

7th Engineer Brigade
7th Engineer Division Shoulder Sleeve Insignia (SSI)
Active1948–1992, 2023–present
CountryUnited States
BranchUnited States Army
TypeCombat engineering Engineering
SizeBrigade
Garrison/HQBaron Barracks, Ansbach, Germany
ColorsScarlet and white
Websitehttps://www.21tsc.army.mil/Units/7th-Engineer-Brigade/
Commanders
CommanderCOL Kyle T. Moulton
Senior Enlisted AdvisorCSM Rufus J. Beamon

The brigade served for many years as the corps engineer formation for VII Corps. In the late 1980s the brigade reportedly was made up of headquarters at Kornwestheim; Headquarters and Headquarters Company; 9th Engineer Battalion, Aschaffenburg, (M60 AVLB, M728 Combat Engineer Vehicles, M88 Recovery Vehicles, MAB bridge modules); 78th Engineer Battalion, Ettlingen, (M60 AVLB, M728, M88, MAB bridge modules); 82nd Engineer Battalion, Bamberg, (M60 AVLB, M728, M88, 1MAB bridge modules); 237th Engineer Battalion, Heilbronn.[2] All four of these engineer battalions may have had a Table of organization and equipment calling for 8x M60 AVLB, 8x M728, four M88s, and 12 MAB bridge modules. The last of the brigade's battalions was reportedly the 565th Engineer Battalion (Bridge), at Karlsruhe.

7th Engineer Brigade was inactivated in Germany in 1991. Throughout the early 1990s, the 130th Engineer Brigade would continue to see units come and go from its command as they were transferred from the restructuring 18th Engineer Brigade and the deactivating 7th Engineer Brigade.

The 21st Theater Command has listed on their official site that the 7th Engineer Brigade is going to return to Germany in the summer of 2023.[3] The Stars and Stripes also reported in November 2022 that 7th Engineer Brigade was returning to Germany later in 2023.[4]

Organization 2023
  • 7th Engineer Brigade, in Ansbach
    • 15th Engineer Battalion, in Grafenwöhr[5]
      • Headquarters and Headquarters Company
      • 500th Engineer Company (Combat)
      • 902nd Engineer Company (Construction)
      • Forward Support Company

References
  1. (1948–1991) 7th Engineer Brigade, Seventh Army, VII Corps
  2. Callahan, Andy (2012-04-16). "Boll Weevil Monument, Enterprise, Alabama, 2010". Southern Spaces. doi:10.18737/m7hg69. ISSN 1551-2754.
  3. "7th EN". www.21tsc.army.mil. Retrieved 2023-04-14.
  4. John Vandiver (17 Nov 2022) German garrison town gears up for a thousand US arrivals with incoming Army units 7th Engineer Brigade? and the 1st Battalion of the 57th Air Defense Artillery Regiment
  5. "15th Engineer Battalion". eur.army.mil. Archived from the original on 6 June 2017. Retrieved 18 December 2017.
  • Army – The Magazine of Landpower – October 1989 (1989). "Command and Staff". Association of the US Army. Retrieved 26 June 2020.
  • Isby, David C.; Kamps, Charles T. (1985). Armies of NATO's Central Front. London: Jane's Information Group. ISBN 0-7106-0341-X.
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