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The 133rd Engineer Battalion is a military engineering unit of the Maine Army National Guard. One of the largest and oldest units in the Maine National Guard , the battalion has responded to natural disasters at home and undertaken military deployments overseas.
Naval Mobile Construction Battalion 133 (NMCB 133) is a United States Navy Construction Battalion, otherwise known as a Seabee battalion, homeported at the Naval Construction Battalion Center (Gulfport, Mississippi). The unit was formed during WWII as the 133rd Naval Construction Battalion. It saw action and was decommissioned shortly after the ...
Although the 133rd Engineer Battalion has a lineage that goes back only to 1854, the Headquarters Company traces its history to the formation of the Portland Light Infantry in 1803. By the War of 1812 the Portland Light Infantry had become Captain Nathaniel Shaw's Company, 3rd Regiment, 2nd Brigade, 12th Division in the Massachusetts Militia.
In 1961, the regiment became the 20th Armor Regiment. In 1967, the 20th Armor Regiment was converted and redesignated as the 133rd Engineer Battalion, which carries on the lineage of the 103rd Infantry Regiment. [10]
The 133rd Engineer Battalion was organized in 1970 from the 20th Armor Regiment, which was a descendant from several other units including the famed 20th Maine Volunteer Infantry Regiment which fought at the Battle of Gettysburg. The 133rd has 42 campaign streamers, representing service from the American Revolution to the War in Iraq.
The Maine Department of Defense, Veterans, and Emergency Management (DVEM) is a government agency in Maine. It comprises the two components of the Maine National Guard, the Maine Army National Guard and the Maine Air National Guard, the Bureau of Veterans' Affairs, the Maine Emergency Management Agency, and when it is active, the Maine State Guard.
The 3rd Battalion, 133rd Field Artillery Regiment and 2nd Battalion, 142nd Infantry Regiment were both awarded Meritorious Unit Citations for their service in Iraq. [ 21 ] In 2005–06, 800 soldiers of 3d Battalion, 141st Infantry Regiment , 72d Brigade, 36th Infantry Division deployed to Afghanistan.
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