It's basically the same thing in the US Army -- you have Combat Engineers, who are the guys who blow up bridges, dig the really big strongpoint positions, etc. They also build mobile bridges, construct heavy vehicle obstacles, lay minefields, and suchlike. Those are your Zapador. Then you have Construction Engineers, who do the...well, building of stuff. Those are your Ingeniero. Combat Engineers are considered a Combat Arms profession, up there in the front with Infantry, Armor, Artillery, Scouts, and Combat Aviation. The Construction Engineers are considered REMFs (Rear-Echelon Mother Fuc***s) -- but that doesn't mean you do without them either.
Now, will find them on most ORBATs in the T2K books? Unfortunately, no. But in most US Army Infantry and Armor divisions, there is a Combat Engineer brigade, and a brigade of Construction Engineers.
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