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Task Force Trailblazers: The 1st Engineer Battalion is back in OIF The “oldest and most decorated” engineer battalion has been deployed to Operation Iraqi Freedom since September 2006. This is the battalion’s second tour in OIF but the first time it has deployed as a...

Oh, some of us are whiskey men, and some of us drink gin,We don't know where we're going but we like it where we've been.Oh, some of us drink Spanish rum and some drink beer and ale,And every! time we see a tug we set it on its tail.It's not so much the movements that...

"I'm a new member of the 1st Engineer Combat Battalion Association. My father, Louis Coke, served with the 1st Engineers during the Occupation after WWII. (He was transferred from the 327th Engineer Combat Battalion, 102nd Infantry Division.) I think these will be of...

(To the tune of "Its a Long Way to Tiparary") We're the "Always First" BattalionBorn in eighteen forty-sixOn the beaches or in junglesAlways first to take our licksWhether building or destroyingFrom Viet Nam to MexicoWe're the Combat Engineer BattalionThat's always on...

An Engineer Poem  We lay down all their rolling roads and cut down all their trees.And if the orders ever come we forget the raging seas.Whenever they want to sleep awhile we put them up a town.And we build the blasted bridges so the infantry wont drown.We get them...