Ohio National Guard Heritage Center

🗓 ON THIS DAY//JUNE 3, 1921: The 1191st Engineer Company is organized in Portsmouth, Ohio as Battery C, 135th Field Artillery. The unit served on New Guinea as elements of the 134th Field Artillery Battalion during World War II. In 1959, the unit converted to engineers and deployed to Iraq in 2004 as Company B, 216th Engineer Battalion, where it earned the Meritorious Unit Commendation. Following the unit’s 2007 reorganization as the 1191st, it has deployed once to Afghanistan. In this June 2016 photo, Sgt. John Musholt, a squad leader with the 1191st Engineer Company, gets guidance from the seat of a tractorized dozer at a parking lot construction site for the Unit Training Equipment Site (UTES) facility at Camp Ravenna Joint Military Training Center near Newton Falls, Ohio.