Engineers Play Key Combat Roles And Pay Ultimate Price 4/28/2003
RETURNING Engineer unit's APC moves to unit's bivouac after day-long mission.
It has been an engineer's war. Engineers were among the first troops on the ground to set the stage for the buildup in the months prior to the invasion of Iraq. When the day came, engineers kicked open the door. They rolled across the desert with the combat assault and bridged the rivers, knocked over the walls and blew up the mines. And as the logistical trail through the land grew so extraordinarily long, stretching from Kuwait to Baghdad and beyond, the engineers worked it heroically, enduring ambushes and attacks from rear supply to skirmish line as they labored to keep the river of ammunition and supplies flowing.