947th Engineer Company (United States)

A unit of the Colorado Army National Guard and Headquartered at Fort Carson, Colorado, the 947th Engineer Company (CSE) deployed to Al Anbar Province of Iraq on October 2005. The 947th Engineer Company (CSE) was augmented with a platoon of the 160th Engineer Company (CSE) from Middletown, Delaware.

The 947th was attached to the Germany Based 54th Engineer BN (Combat)(Mechanized, and the 130th Engineer Brigade. Initially deployed to Al Asad Airbase, Iraq, the 947th Engineer Company quickly assumed horizontal engineer missions throughout extreme Western Iraq and was instrumental in the construction of COP Rawah and COP North. The 947th Engineer Company (CSE) was re-located to Ramadi, Iraq in January 2006 and remained there until their redeployment in October 2006.

External links

* [http://www.coloradoguard.army.mil/webpages/engineers_home.htm Official Homepage]