The 831st Engineer Vertical Construction Company (EVCC) recently received deployment orders for Operation Spartan Shield in U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM), a region which encompasses 27 countries including Kuwait, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, among others.

The 831st EVCC will deploy from Middletown, Iowa, with approximately 150 Soldiers mobilizing in fall 2023. Their primary mission will be to conduct critical infrastructure improvement missions as well as various construction projects throughout CENTCOM.

Most recently, the 831st EVCC mobilized to Cedar Rapids in 2020 to assist county and state emergency management departments in the Derecho storm clean up. The unit was last activated into federal service in 2005 in support of the global war on terrorism.

A send-off ceremony for the 831st EVCC will be announced at a later date.