Within these pages you will find our memories, our stories and a way to reconnect with old friends and to make new ones.  The 82nd Engineers have been around for 70 years and has a rich military history.  Come with us on this journey of where we've been and where we are now and be prepared to learn much along the way.

A COMPANY

How it all started:

  I, Eddie J Cozart, put my name on the website www.military.com about 10 years ago looking for old buddies that were in A Company of the 82nd Engineers in the early 60s.  In December of ‘04 Bill Munden saw my posting and gave me a call. He told me he had found a few guys over the years and was still looking for more. The guys he had found were Morago in Washington and Mobley in Indiana.  Munden had a lot of photos from those days and he sent them to me over the Internet. After viewing the photos he sent, it started to bring back memories that I had completely forgotten of the guys we served with. 

   Then in January of ‘05 I got a call from Bill Lowes saying that he had seen my posting on www.military.com too. Wow, I could not believe this was happening after 42 plus years.  Lowes also had some photos and we shared what we had with each other. Then he came across a list of complete names from some orders he had and I was able to find a few more guys that served with us.  One of the most important guys off Lowes list that we found was Tom Frey from Michigan. Frey had a complete September 1963 roster of Company A. Thanks Frey for keeping that old roster. From Frey’s roster we were able to find more of the guys we served with. 
  

  About March of ‘05 we found Kenneth Oestreich of South Dakota. Ken had a complete roster from November of 1964 for A Company. From that list we were able to find a few more guys.  Then, about October of ‘05 I found Tom Burrows name on www.military.com and we made contact. He had a list of drivers that flew to France to drive the vehicles to Germany in October of 1961 from Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri. From Burrows list of names we were able to find a few more guys and also guys in other Company's of the 82nd Engineers.  So what has happened so far would have never happened if it was not for Lowes, Freys, Burrows and Oestreich’s lists of names that we have today. 
Then around 2006 Roy Petska from the 237th D Company found us and then we found out that the 237th D Co. was only attached to us when we got to Germany in October 1961. They stayed attached to the 82nd until around November or December of ‘63 and then they were converted to D Co. of the 82nd Engineers. That is how the 237th D Company became a part of us, the 82^nd Combat Engineer Battalion. 

Eddie J Cozart (letter written 4/25/07)

 Eddie, our webmaster, passed away in 2010

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D Company 237th Engineers