Canadian Forces - Combat Engineer

OVERVIEW
Your job is to ensure that friendly troops can live, move and fight on the battlefield, and deny the same abilities to enemy troops.

WHAT THEY DO
Combat Engineers are members of the Military Engineer branch of the Canadian Forces. Their job is to ensure that friendly troops can live, move and fight on the battlefield, and deny the same abilities to enemy troops. They also perform duties in aid of the civil power and civil authority; participate in peace-support operations; perform construction and maintenance tasks in support of the CF and other government organizations; drive and operate vehicles and equipment in support of Engineer Operations; and maintain field installations and facilities.

Combat Engineers have the following primary duties:

Construct and maintain roads, airfields, heliports, bridges, causeways, rafts, permanent and temporary buildings;

Construct field defences and obstacles;

Provide drinking water by testing, purifying and filtering local supplies and by constructing local distribution systems;

Detect and dispose of mines, booby traps and bulk explosives;

Deny mobility to the enemy on the battlefield by demolishing roads and bridges, and laying minefields and booby traps;

Maintain and operate engineering equipment, including weapons, vehicles, heavy equipment and supplies;

Provide engineer communications on the battlefield; and

When necessary, fight as infantry (includes use of personal weapons, reconnaissance and section-level tactics).


QUALIFICATION REQUIREMENTS
Combat Engineers should enjoy outdoor work, be physically fit and mechanically and technically oriented, and be resourceful, innovative and self-reliant in nature. They should also be good learners with good hand-eye co-ordination and manual dexterity. Above-average mathematical ability is required for promotion to the higher ranks.

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[sicksonethree]

@BoeingPilotable Any soldier is eligible to go on their Para Course. This include Engineers, Artillery, Armoured Recce, Logistics, EME etc. In fact it is quite easy for the combat arms (Artillery, Engineers, Armoured and Infantry) to get put on a Para course. Back in the old days of the Canadian Airborne Regiment everyone, including the support trades, had their jump wings. Although today, to see an RMS clerk or an EME guy with jump wings is rare, it still does happen.

[Timsar81]

@BoeingPilotable if u want to become an officer u go to RMC, otherwise u go to CFSME and become the work horse, u get to do the stuff not just plan them as officers do,,, i served with 1 CER for 8 years

[chimo1819]

@themilkmoo yes for sure!

[chimo1819]

@BoeingPilotable you only go to rmc if you want to be a combat engineer officer

[chimo1819]

@BoeingPilotable engineer can go for para, sniper, rangers and any other infantry coarse

[BoeingPilotable]

@themilkmoo i don't think so. only infantry soldiers can learn para, but combat engineers are soldiers too, so i'm not sure..

[BoeingPilotable]

guys i have a question: first off, i want to go into reg force. so after high school, do i enlist for reg force combat engineer, finish BMQ, then go to RMC? is it neccesary to go to RMC for combat engineer?

[Kampf0100]

@Zach9898 Im planning on going for combat engineer officer when I graduate! so, as long as yall got the brains, strength, and stammina, yall will do fine!

[Zach9898]

@Kampf0100 thanks bra !!

[Kampf0100]

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