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Jamie Gillum
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The Corps of Royal Engineers have many different rolesacross the battlefield.
Route Maintenance: Building or replacing bridges.
Bomb Disposal: Clearing unexploded bombs. Air Support: Working with RAF and providing suitable
landing platforms.
Humanitarian: Building hospitals and providing food and
drink to post-conflict countries. Amphibious: Provide essential sea-borne services like
Engineer divers, Boat operators.
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The 33 Engineer Regiment (EOD) was born out of the Royal Engineers' BombDisposal companies. They were formed during World War II to deal withmounting problems of German unexploded bombs. After the war theseclearance companies were disbanded and responsibility for UK EOD.
Roles:The EOD Bomb Disposal Engineers are experts in the safe disposal ofunexploded ordnance, such as mines, shells and bombs that may be left on thebattlefield after a conflict.
In peacetime, they apply their expertise to clear and make safe civilian areas.
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Without the 33 Engineer Regiment bomb disposal unit, theArmy would have trouble knowing where the bombs arehidden and may not have the expertise to find them. Thiscould lead to more of our troops stepping on the IEDs and
the bombs exploding, killing people in the near-by radius.
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The roles and responsibilities in combat are:
Fighting on front line
Part of the peacekeeping
Protecting national security
Also can help out with humanitarian aids
Taking care of threats
Combat is a violent conflict meant to establish dominance over theopposition, or drive the opposition away from a location andmaybe take over it if needed.
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225 Signal Squadron (Electronic Counter Measures (Force Protection))
The role of the Squadron is to provide very high readiness ECM(FP) training,operational support and specialist expertise to UK, Expeditionary and Other
Governmental Department Operations in order to support the nominatedCommanders. Force protection is the construction of protective structures and
defensive obstacles. They were created to aid the British Army in protectingthemselves and civilians.
Defensive structures like defensive barracks and blast walls are built by theforce protection soldiers to prevent terrorists or opposition threats. Defensivebarracks will are better quality military barracks that are much stronger and willtake more than just a bullet to penetrate it, although it is not 100% resistant.Also, blast walls are walls that consist of steel supporting structures and steelreinforced bolt-on concrete panels to provide protection from blasts and addssafety from ordinary sand walls.
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Past Example
World War I
In WWI, the force protection squad were used for providing communications totroops out on the front line and back to generals.
Current ExampleAfghanistan
Whilst in Afghanistan, the 225 squadron are used to provide high-readiness training to the soldiers.Also, to give specialist expertise in certain operations involved inAfghanistan.
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Force protection are important, because without them, thesoldiers wont get the highly-readiness training they need,or as much expertise needed for highly important missionswhen in war, this may mean that the enemy will have an
advantage in this area.
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The Royal Logistic Corps (RLC) provide logistic support
to the British Army. It is the largest Corps in the Army,comprising around 17% of its strength. From tanks andammunition to letters and food, they get the exact amountof kit to the right people in the right place at the right time
- enabling the Army to do its job, and boosting moralealong the way.
The RLC works all over the world, in all conditions:
On land, sea and in the air
Night and day In rain, shine and snow
In mountains, desert, built up areas and jungle terrain
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The role of the 102 Logistic Brigade (in war) is to receive
both troops and equipment and deliver them into thetheatre of operations.
Also logistically sustain the fighting formations and finallyredeploy the force back to the UK base or on to other
operations. The Brigade is also responsible for the setting up of field
hospitals and evacuation of casualties.
Operations they are sent on involve a lot of preparations,
like a detailed plan for ammunition, fuel, transport,prisoners of war, humanitarian assistance, rear areasecurity and medical operations.
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Current example
Iraq
The 102 brigade are currently deployed in the Gulf tosupport troops in Iraq. Their main mission is to deliverhumanitarian aids. In total, there are over 150 soldiersfrom the 102 Logistics brigade in Iraq aiding troops and
civilians. The troops will be heavily involved in the arrivalof humanitarian aid at the port of Umm Qsar and thedistribution of supplies across Iraq
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The 102 Logistic Brigade are important because theyprovide humanitarian aids, help build temporary hospitalsfor civilians and troops. They also help troops get fromone battlefield to another or wherever they are needed.
Without them, they may not have enough facilities to helpinjured and sick civilians/troops. Also, the British troopswont have the transport to get to the place they are
needed.
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