Story by Catrina Francis | 416th Theater Engineer Command | 02.14.2023
On Feb. 14, more than 130 Soldiers from the 485th Engineer Company, 863rd Battalion, returned to Arlington Heights, Illinois, after a nine-month deployment to Kuwait....
Story by Cheryl Phillips | 88th Readiness Division | 07.25.2022
Army Reserve Soldiers with the 483rd Engineer Platoon, 863rd Engineer Battalion, Joliet, Ill., practiced mine clearing during Warrior Exercise....
Story by Sgt. 1st Class Kimberly Calkins | 218th Maneuver Enhancement Brigade | 07.06.2018
CINCU, Romania – U.S. Army and Romanian Land Forces engineers began drainage improvements on an existing road as part of a construction project in support of Resolute Castle 2018 at the Joint National Training Center, Cincu, Romania, July 6, 2018. The road, called “Mad Road” by the 10th Engineer Battalion, Romanian Land Forces and affectionally called “Alabama Road” by various......
Story by Spc. Adam Parent | Exercise News Day | 07.30.2017
U.S. Army Reserve Soldiers from the 317th Engineer Construction Company and U.S. Navy Sailors from Naval Mobile Construction Battalion 14 wake up early to build a road in a place far from home. It's 8 a.m. and it is already uncomfortably warm as the Soldiers and Sailors start up their construction equipment. As the diesel engines on their vehicles roar to life and the machines push through the......
Story by Capt. Maria Mengrone | 176th Engineer Brigade (36th ID, TXARNG) | 02.16.2017
CAMP BUERHING, Kuwait - The 863rd Engineer Battalion honored and recognized 100 Soldiers in the rank of Sergeant across their formation during a Non-Commissioned Officer (NCO) Induction Ceremony held at Camp Buerhing, Kuwait, Dec. 8, 2016....
Story by Spc. Brianna Saville | 416th Theater Engineer Command | 07.16.2016
The #USArmyReserve knows how important family is to the Soldier, their unit and the Army as a whole. The 863rd Engineer Battalion expressed their support of the Army Family with fun, games and valuable information....
Story by Ismael Ortega | Mobilization and Deployment, DPTMS Fort Bliss | 05.12.2016
In the early morning hours of the Silas L. Copeland Arrival/Departure Airfield Control Group, engineering Soldiers and National Guardsmen walked across the tarmac to board a plane bound for U.S. Central Command area of operations after completing mobilization training with the Directorate of Plans, Training, Mobilization and Security here May 2....
