Combat engineer for the USMC

[t_samford]

I was wondering if anybody could give me any additional info. on bein a combat engineer. The Marines gave me this job but i dont ship out til june of next year and i dont know much about this job.

 

[RetiredGySgt]

Can be a lot of things. Try looking it up on the internet or ask your recruiter for a source to check it out.

 

[MasterChief]

Here is what I found on the net...

Combat engineering is a combat service support role of using the knowledge, tools and techniques of engineering by troops in peace and war, but specifically in combat. A combat engineer, in many armies also called pioneer or sapper, is a military specialist in using the tools and techniques of engineering under combat conditions, who may perform any of a variety of tasks.

Such tasks typically include fortification, bridge and road construction or destruction, laying or clearing landmines, neutralization of improvised explosive devices (IEDs) and general engineering tasks under fire. More generally speaking, the combat engineer's tasks involve facilitating movement and support of friendly forces while impeding that of the enemy.

 

[Navy1960]

The Combat Engineer brings many unique capabilities to the Marine Air Ground Task Force. From breaching a minefield in support of an infantry battalion to building a bridge or repairing a medical clinic in a hurricane-ravaged third world country, the Marine Corps Combat Engineer stands prepared to accomplish a myriad of assignments. If the thought of leading combat arms Marines in one of the most diverse MOS in the Marine Corps appeals to you, consider life as a Marine Corps Combat Engineer.

MyMOS TBS Web Site

There are a number of billets available inside the Marine Engineer Specialty. After boot camp, a Marine interested in this field will attend Basic Combat Engineer School, located at Camp Lejune, NC. As a combat engineer you will operate or serve as a crewmember on a variety of different Marine military vehicles. Training will assist you to know how to locate and eliminate mines by visual or mechanical means. Servicemembers who are assigned to this MOS are taught construction and carpentry skills, as well as skills in demolition projects and destruction of objects. This can be a field with room for a lot of different types and styles of duty. You can be assigned literally anywhere that the Marine Corps Services, and be detailed as support for a variety of different Marine Corps Command groups.

The Combat Marine Corp Engineer is a construction based MOS, but it also works to support different remodeling and reconstruction issues. In both Afghanistan and Iraq, as a result of the War on Terror, Marine Corps Combat Engineer specialists have been used heavily to help rebuild vital infrastructure, and facilities such as schools, clinics and other industries.
Combat Engineer Marine Corps Careers | USMilitary.com

Hopefully that helps..

 

[Sunni Man]

I was wondering if anybody could give me any additional info. on bein a combat engineer. The Marines gave me this job but i dont ship out til june of next year and i dont know much about this job.

Combat engineer: digging a fox hole!!

 

[Gunny]

Combat engineer: digging a fox hole!!

You dolt. That's called a Marine, and they're called fighting holes. Think we have engineers along just to dig holes in the sand for us? Wrong again. The proper nomenclature for that particular digging implement is an entrenching tool. That would be a small shovel, to you.

 

[pegwinn]

Combat engineer: digging a fox hole!!

Foxholes are burrows in the ground for lil doglike red furred critters.

A fighting hole is a gap in the earth from which hell, damnation, bloody vengeance, and general mayhem in the form of a pissed of Marine comes from.

They are normally dug with an E-tool although a cratering charge is appropriate if you need to create a really well dug in 50 cal.

 

[t_samford]

Foxholes are burrows in the ground for lil doglike red furred critters.

A fighting hole is a gap in the earth from which hell, damnation, bloody vengeance, and general mayhem in the form of a pissed of Marine comes from.

They are normally dug with an E-tool although a cratering charge is appropriate if you need to create a really well dug in 50 cal.

If you piss off a Marine you've got hell to pay.

 

[aztech]

Navy 1960 - My son is a Combat Engineer and went to school at Fort Leonard Wood in MO. On completing his training he was assigned to an airwing in Yuma.

It would have been nice if he had got Camp Lejeune as he would have been with his brother, but not the way it worked out.

Spent last week blowing up shit out in the field.

 

[editec]

You dolt. That's called a Marine, and they're called fighting holes. Think we have engineers along just to dig holes in the sand for us? Wrong again. The proper nomenclature for that particular digging implement is an entrenching tool. That would be a small shovel, to you.

They're called fighting holes....

 

[DavidS2]

I was wondering if anybody could give me any additional info. on bein a combat engineer. The Marines gave me this job but i dont ship out til june of next year and i dont know much about this job.

Thank you for enrolling in the military. I envy you and wish I could've done the same. I wanted to after 9/11. Alas, I'm an only child and my parents forbade me from doing it.

 

[t_samford]

Thank you for enrolling in the military. I envy you and wish I could've done the same. I wanted to after 9/11. Alas, I'm an only child and my parents forbade me from doing it.

That sucks dude but wahts with the 'alas' and 'forbade'?

 

[Sunni Man]

That sucks dude but wahts with the 'alas' and 'forbade'?

Because he's a momma's boy!!!

 

[t_samford]

Because he's a momma's boy!!!

You know thats right!!!

 

[editec]

That sucks dude but wahts with the 'alas' and 'forbade'?

It's called an education.

Some of us are hobbled with one.

 

[t_samford]

It's called an education.

Some of us are hobbled with one.

You do know this is 2008, not the Middle Ages right?

 

[pegwinn]

I'll take alas and forbade over ebonics any ol day.

 

[t_samford]

I'll take alas and forbade over ebonics any ol day.

Well you got me there lol or should i say therea

 

[mtfern]

Your comment about President Obama makes me think you are not the right material to be a U.S. Marine. My guess is you will not make it thru boot camp.

 

[Cain]

My uncle was in the US Army as a Combat Engineer (I believe that was his MOS), and he said it was rough, but he was also in at a different time, and during Desert Shield/Storm.

Thanks for serving .