RE: Mines 8 (!)

You wrote: 

>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?

Bingo, yes, and we don't lack explosives.  Supposedly.	If there is a 
logistics problem I guess we just hold a strike or something.  Mark it 
and go around, I suppose.

The thing about EOD is that a little bit of knowledge is very very 
dangerous.  Teach an Engineer how to disarm a dozen Rooskie mines and 
unless he's innately as cautious as I am, he'll try to disarm anything. 
 
Right up until you find a leatherman imbedded in _his_ skull.

>Are regular force engineers taught more than national guard units?

Not really.  They just practice it more often.

John M. Atkinson