The 36th Engineer Brigade was originally constituted as the 36th Engineers on 1 October 1933, but the unit was not activated until 1 June 1941. Following the U.S. entry into World War II, it was redesignated on 1 August 1942 as the 36th Engineer Combat Regiment, a very apt title considering that it wound up taking part in an astonishing ten campaigns—and earned the coveted Arrowhead device for taking part in assault landings in five of them.
With the war’s end, the Regiment was broken up and its Headquarters and Headquarters and Service Company begin redesignated as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 36th Engineer Combat Group, which was reorganized and redesignated as 36th Engineer Group in April 1953. It would retain this designation the next 53 years—activated for all 13 months of that time—until it was given its current designation of 36th Engineer Brigade on 16 June 2006.
The 36th Engineer Brigade Shoulder Sleeve insignia, often referred to as a unit patch or just “patch,” was first approved as the insignia for the 36th Engineer Group on 3 June 2005. Less than a year later, on 25 May 2006, the insignia’s continued wear by the Group’s Soldiers—and by new members joining the unit in the future—was okayed when the same insignia was redesignated for the 36th Engineer Brigade.
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36th Engineer Brigade Unit Crest (DUI)
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