engineer corps
Army construction unit
A military unit responsible for construction, fortification, and technical operations.
Engineer corps build bridges, roads, and defensive structures, clear obstacles, and handle demolition and mine warfare.
The term also applies to civilian organizations doing large-scale infrastructure work: The Army Corps of Engineers manages flood control projects.
Members are called combat engineers or military engineers.
- militaryArmed forces collectively
- sappersSoldiers specializing in fortifications
- constructionProcess of building something
- bridgingConnecting separated things
- fortificationsDefensive barriers against attack
pioneers · battalion · combat · demolition · bomb disposal · pontoon · trenches · trench warfare · barbed wire · infrastructure · army · warfare · tactical · regiment · builders · bridge building · explosives · siege
engineer corpsinfantry
Ground combat troops
artillery · combat arms · line infantry · field artillery · cavalry
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