92nd Engineer Battalion (Combat) (Heavy)
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The unit's capabilities include sanitary sewer construction, road and highway construction, base camp construction, airfield construction, electrical and plumbing installation. The unit's workmanship can be seen locally where they have performed the preparation and drainage for Gulick Ave. (GA Hwy. 119), preparation and clearance of Airport Road (also known at the Fort Stewart 15th St extension), building of new arrival barracks behind the current Soldier Support Center, the Military Operations in Urban Terrain (MOUT) site for the Bosnia and Kosovo pre-deployment training and many other projects. The 92nd Engineers have also performed their mission during deployments to Haiti and Honduras in the past few years where they did bridge and road construction and repair projects.
In September 1995 the 92nd Engineer Battalion was deactivated at Fort Gordon.
In October 1999 soldiers of the 92nd Engineer Battalion, Fort Stewart, Ga., positioned poles for the installation of security wire around 3rd Army Headquarters in Mubarak Military City, Egypt, as part of Exercise Bright Star.
A bridge, originally constructed in the 1960s, was completely rebuilt by 20 Russian soldiers of the 1st Peacekeeping Russian Separate Airborne Brigade (PRSAB) and American engineers of C Company, 648th Engineer Battalion, along with earth moving equipment and personnel from B Company, 92nd Engineer Battalion, Fort Stewart, Ga., and medical personnel from the 148th Logistics Task Force. The project, in the town of Janja, started Monday, 02 April 2001 and the ribbon cutting ceremony for the bridge is scheduled for April 20. The bridge connected both parts of the town once it is complete. After heavy rainfall led to the flooding of the Krizevica River, members of the 92nd Engineer Battalion were called in to help the water-stricken city of Bratunac June 25.
Elements of the 92nd Engineer Battalion deployed in mid-November 2001 in support of Operation Enduring Freedom to conduct combat construction missions.
During Operation Enduring Freedom, 1st Lt. Laurie Green, a platoon leader with Company B, 92nd Engineer Battalion, lent a hand in a medical clinic operated by U.S. and Spanish doctors and staff near Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan. Green presented jackets and coats to the Afghan children. Students from her hometown of Morehead City, N.C., donated the jackets and coats.
Nearly 250 soldiers from the 92nd Engineer Battalion deployed to the Persian Gulf region in March 2003 in support of the build-up prior to Operation Iraqi Freedom. The unit returned to the United States on July 21, 2003.
