The 3rd Maneuver Enhancement Brigade (MEB) was formed in 2008 and based at Fort Richardson, Alaska. It was part of the Army’s reorganization based upon modular brigades, or “support units of action,” and there were five in all: the MEB, the Battlefield Surveillance Brigade, Fires Brigade, Aviation Brigade, and a Sustainment Brigade.
MEBs were originally envisioned as having a HHC, a Signal Company, and a Support Battalion as organic components, with other units (Engineer, MP, Chemical) assigned based on need. In addition to its HHC, the 3rd Maneuver Enhancement also had an Engineer Battalion, a Military Police Battalion, and a Combat Sustainment Support Battalion.
But the Army decided that in some cases more fully developed Engineer brigades could handle the role assigned to the MEBs, and in the early years of the second decade of the new millennium inactivated several MEBs and replaced them with beefed-up Engineer Units. The 3rd MEB was no exception: it was inactivated in 2011 and its personnel assigned to the 2nd Engineer Brigade, having had just a few short years to fulfill its mission as embodied in its motto of “Resolve, Protection, Strength.”
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