Light Engineer Lessons Learned in the Contemporary Operational Environment

While executing combat operations after a sudden deployment to Southwest Asia, light sappers of the 41st Engineer Battalion, 10th Mountain Division, Fort Drum, New York, gave new meaning to the motto Essayons. Operating first in Uzbekistan and then in Afghanistan, the light engineers performed numer...

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Main Authors: Dacunto, Philip J, Arnold, Bo
Format: Report
Language:English
Subjects:
AFGHANISTAN
AREA COVERAGE
BATTALION LEVEL ORGANIZATIONS
Civil Engineering
DEPLOYMENT
ENGINEERS
LESSONS LEARNED
MILITARY ENGINEERING
MILITARY EQUIPMENT
Military Forces and Organizations
MILITARY OPERATIONS
REPRINTS
SOUTHWEST ASIA
TRAINING
UZBEKISTAN
WARFARE
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Summary:While executing combat operations after a sudden deployment to Southwest Asia, light sappers of the 41st Engineer Battalion, 10th Mountain Division, Fort Drum, New York, gave new meaning to the motto Essayons. Operating first in Uzbekistan and then in Afghanistan, the light engineers performed numerous construction and area clearance missions for which they had never trained. Their combat successes can only be attributed to their versatility and ingenuity, especially when tools and training for certain uncommon tasks were lacking. Published in Engineer, p11-15 Jan-Mar 2003.