erm...have you ever wondered who clears the road for you? if
you've ever stopped to think, or have ever worked with engineers
before, you'd know. we walk mindlessly for 12 hrs with all our
bloody equipment just to clear the path for everyone else. yup,
thats field engineers for you. we are definitely combat, but not
getting recognition, not even in terms of pay.
it's just bloody unlucky of me to end up being a field engineer. if
you want to talk about big ones, we have most of them here.
somehow, the army forgot to update the field engineers, so we're
doing things pretty primitively. don't believe those nonsense that
we clear mindfields using robots. never seen them. we clear
minefields by hand using a mine-prodder...guarantee plus chop will
have legs all gone if it's the real deal. also, don't forget that
we've to build minefields, and a standard minefield is 600 by
400...just imagine digging a hole, arming a mine, covering and
concealing, over and over again in the dark. we're also supposed to
cover the infantry's ass during retrograde, cuz of the explosives
we have with us.
plus. we have to build our trademark bridges. if you've ever seen
the largest bridge the saf has, you'd be pretty impressed. now
imagine having the good fortune of having to build it by hand. it's
made up mainly of panels and transoms, 6 men to one panel weighing
450kg and 12 to one transom weighing 1 ton. it's no joke. sop is to
use cranes, but the saf just have to toy with the idea of building
it by hand for the aceh incident. heck. on top of all those
dangers, we still have to handle explosives...and our pay is even
lower than infantry...
engineers can do almost everything in this army, just include
airborne training and you have it 90% covered...besides, everything
is call the engineers now anyway. need a bridge, 30 or 35. got a
bomb, 36. got chem spills, 39. need a house? EDF....what more do
you want?
