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Article: ENGINEERS TAKE ON NEW ROLE
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- November 6, 2009
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JOINT SECURITY STATION CONDOR, Iraq, Nov. 4 -- The U.S. Army issued the following news release:
For most Soldiers assigned to the 4th Brigade "Highlanders," 1st Armored Division, the unit's advise and assist mission requires a rethinking of traditional roles in a stability operations environment.
The engineers of 2nd Platoon, Company E, 4th Battalion, 6th Infantry Regiment are no different.
When some people hear the word "engineer," they think route clearance, but that's only a small portion of the much larger combat engineer skill set, which these Soldiers are learning to apply in new ways to support the mission.
Based at Contingency Operating Site Hunter in southern Maysan province and ...
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US Fed News Service, Including US State News;
June 5, 2008 ;
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... ... a wired artillery shell, a rocket-propelled grenade and an RPG round at approximately 8 a.m. Thirty minutes later, IA Soldiers from the same unit discovered four IEDs in separate operations. All four IEDs consisted of three "daisy-chained" 120 ...
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