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To: yonif
What is a sapper???
2 posted on 11/14/2003 7:28:37 AM PST by DEPUTYMAYTAG
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To: DEPUTYMAYTAG
Someone who disarms explosives/bombs - a member of the bombsquad
3 posted on 11/14/2003 7:29:41 AM PST by yonif ("If I Forget Thee, O Jerusalem, Let My Right Hand Wither" - Psalms 137:5)
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To: DEPUTYMAYTAG; struwwelpeter
What is a sapper???

Someone who disarms explosives/bombs - a member of the bombsquad

What US calls a Combat Engineer. Someone who plants landmines or digs them up.

For Russians, also includes the dog-team handlers who find mines and boobytraps before they go; K9 teams, or Sobokniks.

6 posted on 11/14/2003 8:39:19 AM PST by archy (Angiloj! Mia kusenveturilo estas plena da angiloj!)
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