479th Engineer Battalion (C)(M)
Despite a high pace of operations, Army equipment readiness has never been better, Army Chief of Staff Gen. Dennis J. Reimer said as he recognized 22 units from around the globe as being the best in maintenance for 1999. Reimer congratulated the active-duty, Reserve and National Guard winners as they received the Chief of Staff, Army Award for Maintenance Excellence during a Pentagon ceremony 18 May 1999. The Reserve Heavy Category, winner was the- Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 479th Engineer Battalion, Watertown, NY.
The 59 soldiers of Charlie Company, 479th Engineer Battalion engaged in realistic training as part of a LANES Exercise. LANES is a controlled series of training events that give a unit commander the ability to assess his unit's readiness. C Company's mission was to clear a mine field as quickly as possible, tactically advance, blow up a barbed wire fence with torpedoes and cross a tank ditch with support from their Armored Vehicle Launched Bridge (AVLB). An 8-man squad was one of the first to complete breaching the mine field and tank ditch. As with all LANES training the unit is evaluated on mission essential tasks and it must train to Army standards, not time. The Officer in Charge (OIC) of the LANES evaluation team was Capt. Bernard R. Lindstrom of the 2d Training Support Battalion, 1st Army.
In June 2001 members of the 149th New York State Volunteers [NYSV], a Civil War reenactment group, attended a School of the Engineer that was held at Fort Ontario, NY. Modern Army Corps of Engineer troops, the 479th Engineer Battalion, CO. B added valuable assistance to the effort of constructing the battery position.
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