Military engineering is an important academic subject taught in military academies or schools of military engineering. The construction and demolition tasks related to military engineering are usually performed by military engineers including soldiers trained as sappers or pioneers. In modern armies, soldiers trained to perform such tasks while well forward in battle and under fire are often called combat engineers.
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I was Corp so we had the Seabees. I guarded them a couple times. Set up a 360 around them while they moved dirt. We called them a Steam Team.
ReplyDelete12B10 here. 54th Engr Bn, Wildflecken, Germany
ReplyDeleteWe had the 237th Engineer Battalion at Wharton Barracks, Heilbronn Germany back in the late 70s, early 80s when I was there. Hard partiers.
Delete814th Float Bridge, 37th Engineer Group, Pioneer Kaserne, Hanau. Warmer than Flicken.
DeleteMy nephew spent 4 years in an Air Force construction unit. The unit was stuck stateside, did nothing because they had no money for fuel or parts. The equipment was kept very clean and the troops spent their time doing schoolwork or playing airsoft when nobody was looking.
ReplyDeleteHe gets out, joins the Nat Guard in a construction unit and immediately does 3 tours almost back to back in the Middle East. And then was sent to Puerto Rico after that big hurricane down there. He said he felt less safe in the PR than in Iraq.
After I got out of active duty in '88, C Co. 479th Eng Bn. Canton, NY '89-'96
ReplyDeleteThe majority of Robert E. Lee's career was as in the Army Corp of Engineers. He built forts, some of which are still standing and was tasked with making the Mississippi navigable up to St. Louis. The nation owed him a lot.
ReplyDelete249th eng. Bn. 78 & 79 stationed in Karlsruhe but tdy 90% of the time. 34 th eng. Bn. In ft. Riley, Ks. Till 81, quarry rat and loved it.
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