Received this from the Colonel today.
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Marion, thank you again for your kind note. I may be remiss in not responding immediately, but please don't misinterpret that I am not interested...I most certainly am. I so admire what you're doing for "your guys"!
I just returned from California at the National Training Center where I was overseeing the training of the 70th Engineer Battalion, which will be one of our subordinate units in Afghanistan . Our modular formations within the Engineer Regiment today only rarely sustain the habitual associations of the past. It is interesting to note that neither the 14th nor the 19th Engineers are aligned today with the 36th. Ah well...who's knows what will happen down the road.
Congratulations on your Engineer Magazine coup. Excellent! I don't have access to the unit records from 1941-1950, but I will refer Odie (Cc: above) to the Corps of Engineers History Office at email address ceho@usace.army.mil and perhaps they can point him in the right direction.
Happy holidays and thank you again for your wonderful contributions toward keeping the spirit of the WWII Combat engineers as alive as ever.
All the best,
Rick Stevens
"Rugged 6"
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COL RICK STEVENS
CDR, 36th EN BDE
254-291-4086
Proud Daughter of Walter (Monday) Poniedzialek
540th Engineer Combat Regiment, 2833rd Bn, H&S Co, 4th Platoon
There's "No Bridge Too Far"