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| rdfs:label | - 9th Engineer Battalion (United States)
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| rdfs:comment | - The 9th Engineer Battalion is a unit of the United States Army that deploys to designated contingency areas and conducts combat and/or stability operations in support of a brigade combat team. It is a divisional mechanized combat engineer unit, composed of three line companies and a headquarters company. Its mission is to provide assured mobility, counter-mobility, general engineering, and survivability support with well trained sappers (combat engineers) ready to deploy anywhere at any time. The unit’s history spans service in 1917 in the US southwest, World War II in France and Germany, multiple deployments to the Balkans, and multiple deployments in support of the Global War on Terrorism in Iraq and Afghanistan. It is most famous for the capture of the Ludendorff Bridge across the Rhine
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| Type | - Combat Engineer Battalion
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| identification symbol label | - Distinctive Unit Insignia
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| Motto | - "Asistiremos" ; "First to Cross!"
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| Source | - TF Gila Mission Statement, OIF 08-10
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| Quote | - On order, Task Force Gila conducts full spectrum engineer and multi-functional support operations to support the 172ND Infantry Brigade in Area of Operations Blackhawk to establish a safe, secure and stable environment.
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| abstract | - The 9th Engineer Battalion is a unit of the United States Army that deploys to designated contingency areas and conducts combat and/or stability operations in support of a brigade combat team. It is a divisional mechanized combat engineer unit, composed of three line companies and a headquarters company. Its mission is to provide assured mobility, counter-mobility, general engineering, and survivability support with well trained sappers (combat engineers) ready to deploy anywhere at any time. The unit’s history spans service in 1917 in the US southwest, World War II in France and Germany, multiple deployments to the Balkans, and multiple deployments in support of the Global War on Terrorism in Iraq and Afghanistan. It is most famous for the capture of the Ludendorff Bridge across the Rhine River. The battalion inactivated on 31 May 2013 in Schweinfurt, Germany as a component of the deactivation of the 172nd Infantry Brigade.
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