This is the engineering folks of non-US forces. I was wondering about engineers, as a civilian, engineer means design huge things, so build a powerplant, a pressure vessel, an airplane, an oil refinery, design design design. Civil, aerospace, petroleum, chemical engineer. But in army, engineer means "having to do with physical barriers". Combat engineer has nothing to do with designing combat, it means blow up the building, dam, bridge, wall, or move this earth moving tractor and fix the wall berm, road ditch. As an insurgent, these are ideal targets. They stay at home, move slowly, stand around, sit in a truck, walk over to the hole in the road. So I wanted to hear about it. The book itself is ok. Nothing eye opening or really good, but not bad either. It is a good read for those interested. In Fantastic beasts the baker guy does the shovel motion explaining his part of the expeditionary forces. It is really hard to say, hey you are a soldier when your job is the operation of a shovel. So how do you live with being shot at for digging holes and fixing roads? Do you get super patriotic, cynical, bitter?