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Combat Engineer Marine Corps Careers

August 19, 2008 By admin

Operational Combat Marine Corps Engineers works to perform a wide variety of different jobs. They work to perform different engineer and construction tasks, all the while being a fully qualified and ready Marine Corps Soldiers. The Marine Combat Engineer is a jack-of-all-trades, a Marine who is called upon to be an expert soldier, but also to know a great deal about how to build, construct, and make things work. Marine Corps Engineers work with military construction, working to repair, construct, and use metalworking and fabrication to perform different military duties. At times Marine engineers also work in the bulk distribution of fuels and other materials. You can learn how to deal with a variety of different jobs and engineer tasks.

There are a number of billets available inside the Marine Engineer Specialty. After boot camp, a Marine interested in this field will attend Basic Combat Engineer School, located at Camp Lejune, NC. As a combat engineer you will operate or serve as a crewmember on a variety of different Marine military vehicles. Training will assist you to know how to locate and eliminate mines by visual or mechanical means. Servicemembers who are assigned to this MOS are taught construction and carpentry skills, as well as skills in demolition projects and destruction of objects. This can be a field with room for a lot of different types and styles of duty. You can be assigned literally anywhere that the Marine Corps Services, and be detailed as support for a variety of different Marine Corps Command groups.

The Combat Marine Corp Engineer is a construction based MOS, but it also works to support different remodeling and reconstruction issues. In both Afghanistan and Iraq, as a result of the War on Terror, Marine Corps Combat Engineer specialists have been used heavily to help rebuild vital infrastructure, and facilities such as schools, clinics and other industries.

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Serving in the Marine Corps as a Combat Engineer can be very rewarding and challenging at the same time. Marine Combat engineers repair, alter, maintain, alter and adjust various structures and buildings. They work to perform a variety of different specialized demolitions in land mines and for urban land breaching is also taught. This is a job that requires you to be in good physical condition to perform as a Combat engineer. You should have normal color vision, and normal hearing.

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