Building Great (Coalition) Engineers
Abstract
G day from the Royal Australian Engineers (RAE) School of Military Engineering (SME) at Steele Barracks, Moorebank, New South Wales, Australia. Like more than 20 United States Army engineer majors before me, I am the military personnel exchange program officer assigned to the United States Army Engineer School, attached to United States Army Pacific, and further attached to SME. By position, I am the officer commanding/ senior instructor for the Engineer Tactics Wing, responsible for training engineer officers and combat engineer noncommissioned officers (NCOs). Officer training consists of three courses: Regimental Officers Basic Course (ROBC) for all new engineer officers coming into the RAE, Engineer Operations Officers Course for junior captains, Combat Officers Advanced Course for senior captains before promotion to major and company-level command. There are promotion-related courses for four NCO groups: Combat engineer corporals, Combat engineer sergeants, Engineer warrant officers (WOs), Combat engineer WOs. Australian Army NCO ranks are modeled after the British Army, in which corporals are equivalent to grades E-5 and E-6, sergeants to grade E-7, WO Class 2 to grade E-8, and WO Class 1 to grade E-9. The Engineer Tactics Wing also oversees the Assault Pioneer Officer/NCO Course for the Royal Australian Infantry, consisting of light infantry training on demolitions, breaching, and watermanship (small boat operations) to support infantry assaults. This article will briefly highlight the ROBC for 2010.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Apr 01, 2011
- Accession Number
- ADA560160
Entities
People
- Timothy R. Beck
Organizations
- United States Army Engineer School