Calling the engineers
Fall in, once again, for a long trail a-winding
Posted: August 14, 2009 at 3:51 a.m.
IT TAKES a special kind of soldier to be a combat engineer. The infantry's mission is pretty clear-cut : Find the bad guys, shoot the bad guys. The field artillery involves more math, but its mission is fairly simple, too: When others encounter the bad guys, you shoot the bad guys, only with bigger bullets.
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Editorial, Pages 18 on 08/14/2009
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