RE: Mines 8 (!)

So as an American engineer you are not trained in any other way than
blowing in place?  Is that the same for booby traps and the like?  What
doctrine must you follow if you lack explosives?

Are regular force engineers taught more than national guard units?

I only had a couple of opportunities to work with US forces so I'm real
curious.

Thanks

> -----Original Message-----
> From: jatkins6@ix.netcom.com [SMTP:jatkins6@ix.netcom.com]
> Sent: Friday, May 15, 1998 10:59 PM
> To:	FTGZG-L@bolton.ac.uk
> Subject:	RE: Mines 8 (!)
> 
> You wrote: 
> 
> >Canadian engineers are trained to disarm enemy mines.  In fact so are
> >Canadian infantry.  As well, whenever they go to a specific theatre 
> they >get trained on disarming mines that may be found there.
> 
> Including AHDs and what not?	Not my particular piece of pie.  Go for 
> it.  Just warn me so I'm out of blast radius.  Playing games with 
> foreign mines that might be boobytrapped or worse is not my idea of 
> fun.
> 
> Reminds me of the first US casualty in Bosnia.  This was an E-7, so he
> 
> should have known better.  Tried to disarm a mine with a Leatherman.	
> They found it embedded in his skull.	In my book, he deserves it for 
> gross stupidity.
> 
> John M. Atkinson