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| Author | Topic: 2oth Brigade again |
| Bernard L. Corbin |
posted 5/28/07 4:49 PM
Watching the Coca Cola 600 on Sunday evening I noticed that several troops present were wearing the 20th Brigade castle patch. Anyone know if the 20th has been reactivated for Iraq? |
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Bob Elmore (Moderator) |
posted 5/28/07 4:53 PM
Yes, the 20th Brigade is active today and is serving in Iraq too if I'm not mistaken. You can check out their website here: http://www.bragg.army.mil/20eng/default.htm http://home.insightbb.com/%7Erhelmore/ Bob's 36th Engineer Page |
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Bob Elmore (Moderator) |
posted 5/28/07 5:10 PM
Check out these photos from the 20th Brigade Reunion in 2003 at Fort Leonard Wood. The Commander of the 20th Brigade spoke at the Saturday evening dinner and they had already served and were serving in Iraq at the time. Notice the "Castle" patch on his sleeve as he spoke from the podium. http://www.20thengineerbrigadereunion.com/photo_gallery1.htm http://home.insightbb.com/%7Erhelmore/ Bob's 36th Engineer Page |
| gary showalter |
posted 9/1/07 11:11 PM
The 20th has it's HQ at Ft. Bragg,NC I have some picturea some where around here... I made it to the reunion in Ashville,NC and had a stroke just before the reunion this year so I hope to make the next one ,I hope that you all have a good life Gary Bco 36th 71-72 to the end of the 36th |
| MICKEY BLANCHFORD |
posted 9/2/07 3:08 AM
The 20th has been in Iraq: In November 2004 the brigade headquarters deployed to Camp Victory, Iraq in support of OIF 04-06. The brigade grew to a 6,100 personnel force composed of three brigade headquarters, seven battalions, six separate companies and nine detachments. The brigade served as the MNC-I corps-level engineer headquarters for all echelon-above-division engineers in Iraq, providing command and control for general support combat and construction engineer missions across the country. During this deployment, the 20th Engineer Brigade patrolled 57,950 kilometers of MSR Tampa for IEDs and UXOs; expanded 14 bases in support of the MNC-I basing plan; emplaced or maintained 16 bridges; expanded detention capacity for 6,000 detainees; trained over 53,000 coalition soldiers on explosives hazards awareness; reduced over 11,000 caches and over 80,000 tons of explosive munitions; and provided geospatial support with more than 20,000 map products and a nation-wide catalogued network of high-accuracy survey points. http://www.fortirwin2vietnam36theng.org/HOME.html A SITE FOR ENGINEERS |
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