combat engineer
English
Noun
combat engineer (plural combat engineers)
- (military) 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.
- Synonyms: field engineer, pioneer, sapper
- 2007, Stanley Weintraub, 15 Stars: Eisenhower, MacArthur, Marshall (page 325)
- 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.