A combat engineer was what he had always been and wanted to be.

"Key served as a combat engineer for eight months in Iraq 2003."

I am very well aware of what a combat engineer can do.

"Would the captain tell us if the combat engineer reported anything else?"

Smith served 15 months with the 24th Division as a combat engineer.

Additional personnel quickly return to the planet with combat engineers.

They almost always back up combat engineers in matters of creating or taking over bases.

I could just give you a standard set of orders for a combat engineer.

"Our job as combat engineers has nothing to do with driving around, policing people up," he added.

Now I know why a combat engineer has such short life expectancy.