1_Combat_Engineer_Regiment

1 Combat Engineer Regiment

1 Combat Engineer Regiment

Military unit

1 Combat Engineer Regiment[note 1] (1 CER, French: 1er Régiment du génie de combat) is a Regular Force regiment of the Royal Canadian Engineers (RCE) commanded by a lieutenant-colonel. Its headquarters is in the Patton Building at CFB Edmonton (Steele Barracks), Alberta, and it is assigned to 1 Canadian Mechanized Brigade Group.

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History

1 CER was continually involved with rotations to Afghanistan as part of the ongoing War on Terror. Due to the regiment's special armoured engineer capability, every Canadian rotation since 2006 had a minimum of an armoured troop from 1 CER attached. As of the start of 2011, 1 CER had six soldiers killed in Afghanistan.[1]

Organization

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Armoured engineers

1 CER is different from other CERs as it holds the Canadian Army's armoured engineer capability. Formerly this was provided by the Badger Armoured Engineer Vehicle (AEV)[2] Since 2018 the Badger AEV has been replaced by a Leopard 2–based AEV[3] that is known in Canadian service as the AEV2 (still commonly called the Badger, or Badger 2).[4]

Order of precedence

Preceded by
First in precedence of Canadian Military Engineers
 1 Combat Engineer Regiment Succeeded by

References

Citations

  1. [1]
    "Fallen Canadians". Archived from the original on 2011-06-09. Retrieved 2011-02-07.
  2. [2]
    "Badger Armoured Engineering Vehicle (AEV)". Archived from the original on 2011-08-22. Retrieved 2011-02-07.
  3. [3]
    Lt Ken Jacobson (16 April 2018). "New Leopard 2 Armoured Engineer Vehicle is 'the natural evolution'". Canadian Army Today.
  4. [4]
    "Ex ASCENDING SAPPER". 3rd Canadian Division Twitter Account. 4 October 2018.

Notes

  1. [N 1]
    Like most numbered Canadian Forces units, the regiment is only known as "1 Combat Engineer Regiment" and not "1st Combat Engineer Regiment".
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