78th Engineer Combat Battalion, 1957 (Source: Donald Coombs) The USNS GEIGER (T-AP-197) docked at Columbus Quay, Bremerhaven in February 1957 after disembarking the 78th Engineer (C) Battalion. The GEIGER crossed the Atlantic dozens of times in the 1950s and early 1960s, deploying troops to European bases and returning troops and refugees to the US.