Duration: 8 Weeks

Purpose: To train engineers or other combat arms officers and noncommissioned officers to use conventional and improvised demolition, minefield operations, obstacle placement and breaching techniques in support of mobility, countermobility, survivability, and assault in conventional and counterdrug environments.

Scope: The course enhances the students' abilities to employ and breach obstacles, detect and neutralize minefields and booby traps, employ engineer assets in support of base defensive operations, upgrade physical security at fixed installations, use demolition in support of narcotics interdiction operations and perform engineer assault missions. Phase one of the training focuses on general skills such as land navigation, communications, and combat lifesaving measures. Phase two consists of conventional and improvised demolition, obstacle construction and breaching, military operations in urban terrain, and booby trap detection and destruction. Phase three consists of engineer battle drills and situational training exercises designed to evaluate the students' abilities to perform sapper missions in tactical scenarios.

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(Copied from School of the Americas website, February 1998.)