Background
The brigade is a Major Subordinate Command of the 416th Engineer Command in Darien, IL. The Commander, 420th Engineer Brigade (Corps) commands and controls all Army Reserve engineer units in the states of Texas, Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, and New Mexico consisting of approximately 2,600 reserve soldiers. The 420th serves as the III Corps Engineer Brigade and the commander serves as the III Corps Engineer. The units of the 420th Engineer Brigade have served in Operation Joint Forge in Bosnia, Operation Joint Endeavor in Kosovo, Operation Desert Storm in Iraq, Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan, and Operation Iraqi Freedom in Iraq. They have also participated in Exercises Bright Star in Egypt, Fuerte Caminos in Honduras and Belize, and Nuevas Horizontes in El Salvador, Panama, and Guatemala.
Units in the 420th are all generic and are not numbered units. They consist of Engineer Group (Combat), Engineer Group (Construction), Engineer Battalion (Combat)(Mechanized), Engineer Battalion (Combat)(Heavy), Engineer Company (Combat Support Equipment), Engineer Company (Construction Support), Engineer Company (Pipeline Construction Support), Engineer Company (Dump Truck), Engineer Detachment (Utility), Engineer Detachment (Firefighting Headquarters), and Engineer Firefighting Teams.
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