Combat Engineers are a squad of specialized infantry trained in explosives removal, demolition, construction, fieldcraft, and other support activities. They are not trained combat troops, although ...

The river was wide, fast, and militarily significant. Most German bridges were expected to be destroyed before American troops reached them. Operation Plunder, Montgomery’s major crossing farther ...

FORT LEONARD WOOD, Mo. — Nearly 60 years have passed since Laurens Beckwith, Earl Shatzer and Gene Reed first came through the gates of Fort Leonard Wood on their way to becoming some of the Army’s ...

Surrounded by hundreds of new U.S. Army recruits who lined the track right outside the 35th Combat Engineering Battalion’s barracks on Fort Leonard Wood, 29-year-old Hunter Young gained some respect ...