Oh, I understand a combat engineer probably has no experience fighting ebola but neither does an infantryman. A combat engineer’s skills would, however, be more easily transferrable to the type of activities involved in dealing with a pandemic than the skills of someone trained to fight combat. An engineer is trained to build stuff and deal with physical, mechanical and logistical issues.
I know what an engineer is...Have a few in my family.
All the COMBAT engineers I have known, did CONTROLLED DEMOLITION. Sort of the opposite of building stuff. Look up controlled demolition, then get back to me.