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The Royal Monmouthshire Royal Engineers (Militia)
The Royal Engineers is a unique Corps, active all over the world in conflict and in peacetime.
Few part time careers can match the diversity, training and breadth of
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experience offered to young men and woman with the right combination of intelligence, courage and determination.
  
Wherever the Army goes, the Royal Engineers go to. They enable the Army to overcome obstacles, and deliver a punch where it counts.
By applying practical engineering, specialist skills and advanced technology, the Royal Engineers - or Sappers - provide the Army with the means to move, fight and survive.
 
Sappers are multi-skilled professionals trained to a high degree to use a wide range of specialised equipment and work in extreme climates and the most intense battle conditions.
The Regiment provides a variety of diverse trades and skills. It is concerned with bridge building, airfield, road and railway construction and repair, mine warfare, boats and ferries as well as the use of explosives and demolitions.
 
The Regimental HQ is in Monmouth and other sub units can be found in Cwmbran, Cardiff, Bristol, Birmingham and Jersey (Channel Islands).
It uses a wide variety of equipment such as articulated low loaders, bucket loaders, cranes, motorcycles, excavators, ambulances, recovery vehicles, searchlights, self loading dump trucks and tipper trucks.
Soldiers from the Regiment have served in support of their regular counterparts throughout the world.
 
In recent times, The Regiment has supported Operations in both Iraq and Afghanistan: in Close and General Support Engineering.
The Regiment Currently has a number of personnel on Operations in both Afghanistan and Cyprus and will deploy a full Troop to Afghanistan in mid 2012.
The life of a sapper can be summed up in three words:
FIGHT MOVE SURVIVE
For more information please Click Here to visit the National Website
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