I've been with units that have had Marine Corps CE's attached to it and with units that have had Army CE's attached to it. I don't know what the MOS task breakdown is for CE's, or if it differs between the two branches of service, but the Army seemed to have a lot of nice heavy equipment whereas my fellow Marines ran with we grunts (they were masters at breaching obstacles, demolitions, mines, etc. They also were trigger pullers. The Army CE's were great at digging your fighting positions very rapidly and getting you the materials for overhead cover.) As far as the USMC is concerned, the infantry MOS of 0351 has as its secondary specialty that of demolitions and breaching. We were well trained on field expedient demolitions, blasting, cratering, cutting (with C4 and TNT) creating obstacles, FODing potential runways, breaching wire-minefields-doors, etc. Bangalore torpedo rushes were on our training menu (as was making field expedient Bangalore torpedoes...and claymores...and other party favors.)
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