120th Engineer Battalion (Combat) (Heavy)
Some 150 soldiers from the 120th Engineer Battalion deployed for three months in April 1997 to build a vehicle maintenance facility in Trinidad.
The 120th Engineer Combat Battalion (Heavy)m as part of its annual training exercise, "Golden Kastle '98", provided McAlester Army Ammunition Plant, OK, with a much-needed facelift. Along with other engineer units, numbering more than 1,500 soldiers, it completed $5.4 million worth of construction projects that otherwise would have cost the plant considerably more. This included a surge support base camp for the reservists who worked on road and magazine projects that enhanced the plant's ability to meet Tier 1 requirements. (The plant, as a Tier 1 installation, will be required to ship ammunition quickly during the first 30 days of a military conflict.) The reservists also paved 4.5 miles of road, prepared 8.4 miles for paving, built concrete truckstop pads at 19 railroad crossings, and extended the drive-through slabs at 30 ammunition storage magazines.
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