STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- More than 40 years after dodging his last bullet in Vietnam, where he built ... part of the 19th Combat Engineer Battalion, endured monsoons and ever-present sniper fire ...

In response to the build up of U.S. forces in the Republic of Vietnam, the brigade headquarters ... Corps with one airborne combat engineer battalion, a heavy construction battalion and four ...

It also was involved in much of the Vietnam ... Engineer Battalion, then part of the 11th Airborne Infantry Division. Wade spent two years in the Philippines and New Guinea and twice made combat ...