9th Engineer Battalion (United States)
The 9th Engineer Battalion is a unit of the United States Army that deploys to designated contingency areas and conducts combat and/or stability operations in support of a brigade combat team. It is a divisional mechanized combat engineer unit, composed of three line companies and a headquarters company. Its mission is to provide assured mobility, counter-mobility, general engineering and survivability support for the 172nd Infantry Brigade with well trained sappers (combat engineers) ready to deploy anywhere at any time.
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