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combat engineer

combat engineer noun: a soldier employed to carry out engineering tasks in support of land forces during combat operations, facilitating the mobility of friendly forces while impeding that of the enemy.

Noun

combat engineer (plural combat engineers)

  1. A soldier employed to carry out engineering tasks in support of land forces during combat operations, facilitating the mobility of friendly forces while impeding that of the enemy.
    • With him were 60,000 combat engineers for multiple bridgings of the river, and hundreds of thousands of tons of supplies, landing craft, and amphibious vehicles.2007, Stanley Weintraub, 15 Stars: Eisenhower, MacArthur, Marshall, page 325

combat engineer meaning in Vietnamese

combat engineer in Vietnamese

Translations
công binh

Synonyms of combat engineer

Forms of combat engineer

pluralcombat engineers

Questions about combat engineer

What does combat engineer mean?
Combat engineer means a soldier employed to carry out engineering tasks in support of land forces during combat operations, facilitating the mobility of friendly forces while impeding that of the enemy.
What is combat engineer in Vietnamese?
Combat engineer in Vietnamese is công binh. See Combat engineer meaning in Vietnamese.
What part of speech is combat engineer?
Combat engineer is a noun.
What is the plural of combat engineer?
The plural of combat engineer is combat engineers.

Words near combat engineer in the dictionary

  1. combat boots
  2. combat box
  3. combat boxes
  4. combat drone
  5. combat drones
  6. combat engineer
  7. combat engineers
  8. combat fatigue
  9. combat fatigues
  10. combat general
  11. combat loading

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