March 10, 2010 at 1:25pm
JOINT BASE LEWIS-MCCHORD, Wash. - The 864th Engineer Battalion will case
its battalion colors in preparation for an upcoming deployment to
Afghanistan, in a ceremony to be conducted on Thursday, March 11 at 11
a.m. on Watkins Field on JBLM-Lewis Main.
Approximately 600 personnel will deploy with the battalion. Upon arrival
in Afghanistan, the battalion will support Regional Command South by
assuming command and control responsibility for a military engineering
task force headquartered in Kandahar, conducting a variety of missions
throughout the Regional Command South area of responsibility.
The battalion will provide force protection and life support
construction in support of maneuver units that are distributed
throughout Kandahar province, and conduct construction operations that
will maintain lines of communication between forward operating bases and
supporting combat outposts, to include maintaining and improving
existing roads and constructing airfields as required by mission
commanders.
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