Participating as a part of the combined arms team in all forms of combat operations. This includes the offense, the defense, and the retrograde in all types of operations, including airborne, internal defense, and amphibious operations. In these operations they perform specialized tasks, alone or in cooperation with other units-such as the construction, destruction, breaching, or passage of obstacles and barriers; river crossings; and employment of atomic demolitions munitions (ADM). Engineer combat units may be committed as units to engage in infantry type combat. b. Constructing or rehabilitating all types of structures for military purposes, such as cantonments, depots, warehouses, hospitals, administrative buildings, and their necessary utilities, c.
DesignationFM 5-1
EditionSep 1965
StatusSuperseded
Pages325
FunctionEngineering
EchelonTroop
CollectionHistoric
Public domain (U.S. Government work)