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a military engineer who lays or detects and disarms mines

a military engineer who does sapping (digging trenches or undermining fortifications)

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It is thought that Sapper Moralee, an armoured engineer, was standing under the bucket, hosing it down when it fell.
Following this initial objective, sappers focus on supporting their maneuver battalion follow-on assault objectives, either in the vicinity of the lodgment or in an offset location.
Evonne McCord joined fellow former sappers to pay their respects to fallen comrades and mark 300 years of the Royal Engineers.
Players will need to use their wits to solve a variety of brain-bending logic puzzles and help Sapper avoid threats and dangers, including machine gunners in bunkers, swamps, and of course, dozens of deadly hidden mines.
Sapper McDermott, of 36 Engineer Regiment, treated and helped carry his commander to a Mastiff vehicle under fire.
They''ve also been stripped of all their nutrients, including B vitamins and trace minerals, which are essential for converting food to energy.Zap the sapper: "Go for low-glycaemic foods that provide a slow and sustained release of energy," says Kim.
Afterwards Geraldine Azimkar, the mother of Sapper Azimkar, said: "We are in shock.
Sapper Dawson said: "Normally you can tell when something is going to happen because the atmospherics change, the locals leave and it becomes quiet.
Sapper Kieran Dawson, 26, a Royal Engineer from Maghull, was working on a bridge on a road that had already been blown up once when his team came under fire from a hail of bullets.
Summary: A sapper died and at least four others were hurt on Monday when a cluster bomb went off as their team cleared a mine-infested field in southern Lebanon
The bodies of Sapper Darren Foster, 20, of 21 Engineer Regiment, and Sapper Ishwor Gurung, 21, of the Queen's Gurkha Engineers, were flown into RAF Lyneham in Wiltshire.
Sapper Darren Foster, 20, was shot just hours before a second soldier died in Helmand province.
Sapper Darren Foster, from 21 Engineer Regiment, died of gunshot wounds in the Sangin District of Helmand yesterday.