The 150th Combat Engineers where reactivated September 2, 1994. Below is the Lineage and Honors. Under it is many links with letters, news articles, and pictures of the ceremony. We will not be adding much more to this section, as we are concentrating on the the work and actions of the men in WWII. We do hope one day to link to a website about the current 150th, should they make one.

2021 Update, This unit was deactivated shortly after their time in the Iraq war. It was again REACTIVATED in January 2017, and is now and hopefully will remain an active military unit. My father Bob Pitts at 94 went to the activation of the unit, making it so they again could legitimately carry the decorations, Campaign Participation and Streamers, and Presidential Unit citation of the WWII era 150th! I plan on adding in quite a bit more information about the Mississippi 150th from the 90's, and current. This will happen after I have finished upgrading the entire original website I created! So hopefully over winter 2021-2022 this will happen.

DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY

Lineage and Honors

150TH ENGINEER BATTALION

Constituted 2 September 1994 in the Mississippi Army National Guard as the 150th Engineer Battalion and organized from new and existing units in eastern Mississippi with Headquarters at Meridian

Assigned 1 September 1995 to the 155th Armored Brigade

HOME AREA: Eastern Mississippi

CAMPAIGN PARTICIPATION CREDIT

Authorized to display the following campaign participation credit of the former 150th Engineer Combat Battalion as "a challenge and a trust":

World War II
Normandy
Northern France
Rhineland
Ardennes-Alsace
Central Europe

Company B (Quitman) additionally entitled to:

  • Southwest Asia
    Liberation and Defense of Kuwait

DECORATIONS

Authorized to display the following decoration of the former 150th Engineer Combat Battalion as "a challenge and a trust":

Presidential Unit Citation (Army), Streamer embroidered SIEGFRIED LINE

Letters Trying to get the 150th Combat Engineers to be a Reactivation of the WWII Outfit

Story 150th's History and New Life - By Bob Pearl & Pentagon List Showing Unit Cuts, and Formation of the New 150th

Newspapers 150th Combat Battalion Resurrected - 3 Articles

Pamphlet Describing Unit History, and Reactivation Ceremonies. Also Certificate of Appreciation Awarded to Arthur & Ruth Boucher

Pictures From the Ceremonies of the Reactivation Thanks to Curt Shaw & Pat MacIsaac.

News Letter Prior to the 50th Reunion, about the Trip to Mississippi.

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