110th Maneuver Enhancement Brigade

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110th Maneuver Enhancement Brigade
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Active2007
CountryFlag of the United States (23px).png  United States
Allegiance Missouri
United States of America
Branch United States Army National Guard
Type Maneuver Enhancement Brigade
SizeBrigade
Motto(s)Get It Done
Engagements
Commanders
Current
commander		COL Marty Clay

The 110th Maneuver Enhancement Brigade (110th MEB) is a maneuver enhancement brigade of the Missouri Army National Guard. The brigade has been assigned to the 35th Infantry Division since mid-2023, and will be reorganized as the division's "protection brigade" by 2026 as the U.S. Army modifies its divisional structures.

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History

The 110th Maneuver Enhancement Brigade unofficially descends from the 3rd Infantry Regiment, Missouri National Guard, first organized with that designation in 1886, but officially is a descendant of the 110th Engineer Regiment, which was first organized in 1917 during World War I as a part of the 35th Division. The 1st Battalion of Engineers, Kansas National Guard, the 1st Battalion of Engineers, Missouri National Guard, and the Band, 1st Kansas Infantry Regiment, were consolidated to form the 110th Engineer Regiment. The 110th Engineer Regiment fought in the Meuse-Argonne offensive in the closing months of World War I, arrived at the port of New York on 19 April 1919 aboard the USS Von Steuben, and was demobilized on 3 May 1919 at Fort Riley, Kansas.

110th Engineer Regiment

The 110th Engineer Regiment was constituted in the National Guard in 1921, assigned to the 35th Division, and allotted to Missouri. It was organized on 1 October 1921 at Kansas City, Missouri, by redesignation of the 3rd Engineers, Missouri National Guard, which was originally organized and federally recognized on 14 May 1918 as the 7th Infantry (state troops), redesignated as the 3rd Infantry on 6 August 1920, and reorganized as the 3rd Engineers on 1 May 1921. The entire regiment (Headquarters, Headquarters and Service Company with Band, Medical Detachment, and 1st and 2nd Battalions each with three companies) was organized with men from Kansas City. The regiment was consolidated on 2 July 1923 with its World War I predecessor. The regiment conducted weekly drills at its armory at 3620 Main Street in Kansas City, which was designed by the regimental commander, Colonel Edward M. Stayton, to fit the needs of an engineer regiment. The building was privately owned, but leased to the state of Missouri. [1] It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on 24 February 2020 as a key example of an interwar National Guard armory, and is currently on track to be redeveloped. [2] The regiment also maintained a 55-acre park called the "Military Country Club" in the Knobtown neighborhood southeast of Kansas City proper near Raytown for the use of the officers and men, with a ten-target rifle range, a twelve-acre lake, and a stable of saddle horses. [3] Annual training was done at Camp Clark, near Nevada, Missouri, from 1921 to 1939, and for at least three years (1938-40), the regiment trained 39 company-grade engineer officers of the 102nd Division at Camp Clark and Camp Ripley, Minnesota. The regiment was inducted into federal service on 23 December 1940 at Kansas City, Missouri, and was transferred on 29 December to Camp Joseph T. Robinson, Arkansas. The headquarters was transferred on 23 October 1941 to Fort Ord, California. [4] [5] [6]

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110th Engineer Battalion

On 1 March 1942, the 35th Infantry Division was reorganized from a "square" into a "triangular" division and the 110th Engineer Regiment was split into two battalions. The Headquarters, Headquarters and Service Company, and Companies A, B, and C became the 110th Engineer Battalion, which remained assigned to the 35th Infantry Division, while the 1st Battalion headquarters was disbanded and the 2nd Battalion became the 2nd Battalion, 132nd Engineer Regiment, which maintained a separate lineage. The 110th Engineer Battalion was relieved from assignment to the 35th Infantry Division on 27 January 1943 and subsequently fought in the Aleutian Islands campaign in 1943, the Philippines campaign in 1944-1945, and the Battle of Okinawa in 1945, being inactivated on 31 January 1946 in Korea. [7] The battalion was allotted to the Missouri National Guard after World War II as the 110th Engineer Combat Battalion and assigned to the 35th Infantry Division. [8] As of 2001, it was active with headquarters at Kansas City as a component of the 35th Infantry Division (Mechanized).

Heraldry

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Units and formations

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References

  1. ↑ Historical Annual, National Guard of the State of Missouri, 1939. Baton Rouge, Louisiana: Army and Navy Publishing Company. 1939. p. 148.
  2. ↑ Friestad, Thomas (November 2, 2023). "Exact Partners sells KC's historic former armory building to new ownership along future streetcar". Kansas City Business Journal. Kansas City, MO. Retrieved March 14, 2023.
  3. ↑ Historical Annual, National Guard of the State of Missouri, 1939. Baton Rouge, Louisiana: Army and Navy Publishing Company. 1939. p. 148, 257.
  4. ↑ Composition of National Guard Divisions and Disposition of Former National Guard Units, 1917. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office. 1918. p. 11.
  5. ↑ Clay, Steven E. (2010). U.S. Army Order of Battle 1919-1941 Volume 3, The Arms: Air Service, Engineers, and Special Troops, 1919-41. Fort Leavenworth, KS: Combat Studies Institute Press. p. 1,719.
  6. ↑ Historical Annual, National Guard of the State of Missouri, 1939. Baton Rouge, LA: Army and Navy Publishing Company. 1939. p. 148, 257.
  7. ↑ Stanton, Shelby L. (1984). Order of Battle, U.S. Army, World War II. Novato, CA: Presidio Press. p. 544, 570.
  8. ↑ National Guard Troop Basis and Troop Allotments. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office. 1948. p. 41.
  9. ↑ Official National Guard Register for 1939. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office. 1939. p. 73.
  10. ↑ "110th Maneuver Enhancement Brigade". Moguard.com. Archived from the original on 2014-03-05. Retrieved 2014-08-19.
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