Editing Pontoon bridge (section)

===Invasion of Iraq===

[[File:Improved Ribbon Bridge built by 341st Engineer General Service Regiment (11-06-2018).webm |thumb|Improved ribbon bridge built by 341st Engineer General Service Regiment at Drawsko Pomorskie training area, 11 June 2018]]

The United States Army's 299th Multi-role Bridge Company, [[United States Army Reserve|USAR]] deployed a standard ribbon bridge across the [[Euphrates river]] at [[Battle of the Karbala Gap (2003)|Objective Peach]] near Al Musayib on the night of 3 April 2003. The 185-meter bridge was built to support retrograde operations because of the heavy-armor traffic crossing a partially destroyed adjacent [[highway]] span.<ref>{{cite web|last=Pike|first=John|url=http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/library/report/2004/onpoint/ch-5.htm|title=On Point - The United States Army in Operation Iraqi Freedom|work=globalsecurity.org|access-date=2015-09-10|archive-date=2011-04-01|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110401150354/http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/library/report/2004/onpoint/ch-5.htm|url-status=live}}</ref>

"By dawn on 4 April 2003, the 299th Engineer Company had emplaced a 185-meter long Assault Float Bridge—the first time in history that a bridge of its type was built in combat."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://299th.luddite.net/files/obj_peach_narrative.doc|title=OBJECTIVE PEACH NARRATIVE CPT Steven J. Thompson, Commander, 299th Engineer Company (MRB)|access-date=2012-09-18|archive-date=2011-08-10|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110810192452/http://299th.luddite.net/files/obj_peach_narrative.doc|url-status=live}}</ref> This took place during the [[2003 invasion of Iraq]] by American and British forces. That same night, the 299th also constructed a {{convert|40|m|adj=on}} single-story [[Medium Girder Bridge]] to patch the damage done to the highway span. The 299th was part of the [[3rd Infantry Division (United States)|U.S. Army's 3rd Infantry Division]] as they crossed the border into [[Iraq]] on 20 March 2003.