Combat Engineer the unsung soldier
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hah!?!?Originally posted by bigballs11:Long long time ago, 35 also build long spanned APB on top of floating barges, but they stop it after getting the pontoon bridge/rafts.
my god
die lar
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arh?Originally posted by silkmagic:Yup werewolf, bigball11 life seems the toughest. Imagine being a trainee for such a long period of time. But 35 seems to have a good life or that is what all my friends at 35 say. Course for plant is fairly interesting. We dig in the morning, afternoon and night. The only difference is that we use different equipment to dig different type of hole
no lah
35 not slack lar...........
imagine carry 200kg CANDACE deck..........
*gasp*
den move out at night.......reach place 10.00pm or so
start building at 12.00mn
build two rafts until next morning at 5.00am
den start rafting.......
die lar
and with 30 ppl or so, building 2 CANDACE rafts.... -
Sorry I requote, being an engineer is tough whereever you are
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Think 38 ceased to exist for quite sometime liao. All AEs now are under Armoured Engineer Training Center or organic to SARsOriginally posted by bigballs11:38SCE - Armoured Engineers -
Cannot be la, if that is the case 30 will belong to infantry, 35 belong to navy, 36 report to police unit, then HQ SCE will have to close shop liao. Maybe for ease of command and control, the 38 individual sub units is organic to different SAR, but 38 and ATEC is still alive and intact controlled by the HQ SCE
Originally posted by Desert Fox:Think 38 ceased to exist for quite sometime liao. All AEs now are under Armoured Engineer Training Center or organic to SARs -
The status of 38 is quite blur as at one time they are operational and then they go back to become AETC. Anyway, I have friends from 38 and at no time did 38 comes under the command of the Amour.Originally posted by Desert Fox:Think 38 ceased to exist for quite sometime liao. All AEs now are under Armoured Engineer Training Center or organic to SARs
Our amour engineer tank are much bigger than the tanks from Amour unit. When our tank comes all must siam, as we have the biggest gun in the the army. Tua Bao Sian hehehe -
The AE tanks are actually M60 chassics. Yeah they are so big, our puny M113s and AMXs have to siam for them... their gun are the BIGGEST but also the SHORTEST......hahahahaOriginally posted by silkmagic:The status of 38 is quite blur as at one time they are operational and then they go back to become AETC. Anyway, I have friends from 38 and at no time did 38 comes under the command of the Amour.
Our amour engineer tank are much bigger than the tanks from Amour unit. When our tank comes all must siam, as we have the biggest gun in the the army. Tua Bao Sian hehehe
The gun is or demo only, not for combat.....and when the AE vehicle break it's giant track..............siao siao....the AE soldiers will
liao.
Armored Engineers........super siong -
Armoured Engineer got 2 types, the suay one will end up in an overcrowed old dingy M113 rejected by the armoured units, whereas the more dua-ki one will drive the M728 CEV and M60A1 AVLB (which is actually an M60 tank) or the recently acquired CET. Those AVLBs I think weight at least 60 tonnes and for heaven sake always screw up the newly paved concrete ground no matter how much new patches you apply on holes/cracks created by these monster.
I think you can also roast chicken wings behind those hot exhaust of these 750bhp engines
Originally posted by Silenthunter:The AE tanks are actually M60 chassics. Yeah they are so big, our puny M113s and AMXs have to siam for them... their gun are the BIGGEST but also the SHORTEST......hahahaha
The gun is or demo only, not for combat.....and when the AE vehicle break it's giant track..............siao siao....the AE soldiers will liao.
Armored Engineers........super siong -
A salute to all the Engineers out there.
I was also an Engineer from SOCE way back in the days when SOCE was still in Jurong Camp II.
I was trained as a Field Engineer Officer but remained as an instructor for the Pro-term Enginner cadets for the next 2.5 batches. I do want to agree with all my brothers out there who have toughed it out as Engineers, whether you be a field engineer, armoured engineer, from 35, 36, or 39.
Who can forget the basic training of 12 chin-ups before every meal, running around with dummy AT mines, (ever kenna do jumping jack with AT mines?!?!), carrying rolls and rolls of barbed wire, concertina wire (then all your clothes kenna cut and ripped, boots also all kenn torn until water can seep in!), heaps of iron pickets, boxes of mines, MGB parts (who can forget doing a 2E+12 MGB in the middle of the night, knowing full well that if don't finish by H-Hour, the Armour cannot pass the gap...)
or laying minefield...dig all those little shit holes everywhere, lay the mines and retrace your steps along the white tape
if not instructor will step in to declare &^%(& casualty which others have to come in to case-vac him back to the start point...
But the best part must be playing with explosives...esp in Ex. Crescendo, wah lau, blow things up like nothing man. Ever seen a tree fly 4 stories into the sky?! or ever seen a succession of 12-14 trees blown sidesways, falling down together on the same side simultaneously to cerate an abbattis? or the hole left after a cratering charge has gone off! wah! the biggest damned hole i ever saw man! and the feeling of feeling the earth shake as you explode all the LFMs, Claymores, ADMS, Cratering charges and empty 2 magazines on auto into the target area from the hill top...better than sex man! haha
For all those who served, toiled, and bled, wept and bonded as engineers, advance and overcome! -
Salute to the early pioneers of the Combat Engineers in the island called Pulau Blakang Mati - now called Sentosa.
The horrors of haunted weekends doing guard and fire picket duties in the barracks, camp perimeter, and ammo dumps.
The horror of seeing someone losing a leg or finger while building the Triple Storey / Triple Thrust Bailey Bridge across a wide gap.
The terror of training under the 'Jowdi' Trainer.
The terror of being trained by the local officers who became as 'siow' from being trained by the 'Jowdi'.
The horror of the final week of Combat Engineer Officer Cadet Training that last for an entire sleepless week of attack, defense, and withdrawal; culminating in a non-tactical building of two bailey bridges spanning across the old Tampinese Road by a Platoon of Officer Cadet - to allow PWD trucks to work on the extension of Paya Lebar airport runway.
The terror of graduating as a young Officer and posted to command a platoon of soon-to-be "ROD" (run-out-date) of Hokkien-Teochew Toughies - most of whom can carry a Johnson 40 horsepower outboard motor single handedly on the shoulder.
Salute to all of them who remain great friends as Combat Engineers regardless of ranks, during chance meetings in civvy street. -
I don't know much about the combat engineers, but my recce team has passed some of them while they were working on some moving bridge-pontoon thingy (can't make heads or tails of it, but know that it can carry tonners on top) during a exercise in S'pore.
I admire those crazy engineers... their work (and carry) load is like KNN!!! -
I'm not from a combat engineer unit - but I will always remember and admire their discipline and efficiency. I had a chance, a long time ago to train with the boat crews from 35SCE on a coastal assualt exercise. I remember quite clearly how they man-handled the boats and the outboard motors when preparing for the exercise as well as after the exercise. Even a lance-corporal at that time, can control a section.
The rest of my company just stood still, silently watching them with amazement.