Corps of Engineers

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  Combat Engineers have been a vital and inseparable element of the combined arms team since the battle of Bunker Hill.  They are the first in and last to leave a battle.   Virtually all engineer officers receive troop leading experience in combat, construction or topographic engineering units before branching out into such fields as civil works, military construction, environmental engineering, and other specialties.
    Combat missions for engineers include:  bridge-building and destruction; minefield emplacement and breaching; obstacle/fortification emplacement and reduction; and other tasks requiring specialized engineer skills and equipment.   Construction engineers build and maintain roads, airfields and facilities to support combat operations.  Topographic engineers provide the terrain depiction products and analyses that give maneuver commanders an edge in battle.
    After appropriate and successful troop experience, engineer officers may be sent to graduate school to specialize in construction management and other disciplines culminating in command of engineer districts and divisions involved in water resource and other domestic and overseas infrastructure projects, or construction and maintenance of military facilities.
    Being an Army Engineer is challenging and important work.  A career in the Engineer Regiment is filled with opportunities for bright, ambitious young people who want to build a successful career.
 
 

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