Tag: Combat Engineer

Former Delta operator George Hand talks about what motivated him to join the greatest fighting force on Earth.

So now he faced a choice: come clean and tell the squadron that he had no idea how to do his job, or skate; in other words, just fake it.

He maintained steady hit and run tactics on the Iraqi Army with and without his tank while working with Bedouin and varied anti-Saddam militias in Southern Iraq.

We could be looking at an attack as devastating, if not more than 9/11, while bypassing all security measures.

The more IEDs you train on, the better you are prepared for the field.

The infantry is no place for a woman, and to permit them to serve in close combat roles is a pure politically correct extravagance.

Using a robot to clear a hazard, from a Combat Engineer perspective, makes perfect sense. Why endanger further innocent lives for the sake of a bad guy?

Let the crying and defense of people who actually only need their commanders, fathers, or mothers to take off their belts and spank their pampered asses into adults . . . Internet tough guys, don’t type, but drive to my place for real confrontation in lieu of continuing this emotional charade.

We were clumsy animals. It was junior high all over again, and I just drank a 40 oz of malt liquor and was now attempting to wildly grope for some boob. The road was as hazardous as my date – unknown, inexperienced, and random. Yet, the excitement was the moment – forward!

For the Air Assault the engineers had a similar mission, but a different ride to it.

As the training progressed through the day, the troops split into pairs and practiced minefield extraction techniques in separate lanes and set flags to mark potential threats as they proceeded down their individual routes.

Researchers at MIT and Princeton have built a new laser-powered terahertz spectroscopy system capable of detecting chemicals used in explosives. Terahertz spectroscopy is the measurement of electromagnetic radiation between the frequencies of microwaves and infrared. Scientists have long realized the radiation’s potential for bomb detection, but traditional terahertz spectroscopy systems are bulky and use lots […]