20th Engineer Brigade Combat Airborne Corps
Worn from:
29 June 1967 - Current.
The castle tower is suggested by the Corps of Engineers branch insignia.
Its base is pointed, in reference to the brigade's combat requirements.
The tower also represents the headquarters of the brigade; the white
areas grouped around the tower, simulating carpenter squares, allude
to the engineer combat and construction groups which it serves. The
tower and white areas also simulate heavy construction (buildings,
compounds, fortifications, bunkers, revetments, runways, roads, etc.);
placed on a square they allude to the establishment of bases. The red
border and the red saltire refer to lines of communication.
The 20th EN BDE was redesignated airborne after vietnam and
the patch since has been worn with the Airborne tab. It's official
designation is 20th Engineer Brigade (Combat) (Airborne Corps).
Campaigns:
Civil War (Peninsula, Antietam, Fredericksburg, Chancellors- ville,
Virginia 1863, Wilderness, Spotsylvania, Cold Harbor, Petersburg, Appomattox),
War with Spain (Santiago),
Philippine Insurrection, Mexican Expedition (Mexico 1916 - 1917),
World War I (Lorraine 1918),
World War II (Normandy, Northern France, Rhineland, Ardennes-Alsace, Central Europe),
Vietnam (Counteroffensive Phases III/IV/V/VI/VII, Tet and Tet/69
Counteroffensives, Summer-Fall 1969, Winter-Spring 1970, Sanctuary
Counteroffensive, Consolidation I),
Armed Forces Expeditions (Saudi Arabia, Kuwait).
Decorations:
Meritorious Unit Commendations (streamers embroidered Vietnam 1967 - 1968;
Vietnam 1968; Vietnam 1968 - 1970; and Vietnam 1970 - 1971),
Vietnamese Civil Action Honor Medal First Class
(streamer embroidered Vietnam 1967 - 1970).