ENGINEER COMPANY, ACR - 2004
Capabilities:
(1) Advises maneuver element commanders and staffs on engineer unit capabilities, engineer utilization, and combat engineering impacts on the maneuver unit's plans and operations.
(2) Prepares and maintains essential combat routes in the forward area.
(3) Performs expedient repair of essential bridges fords, and roads.
(4) Provides, emplaces and maintains assault bridges to span six 60-foot gaps simultaneously.
(5) Conducts engineer reconnaissance and provides engineer intelligence for the regiment.
(6) Provides engineer support for the construction of obstacles and defensive positions, obstacle breach operations, assault river crossing operations, and the construction of fixed and floating bridges.
(7) Provides field engineering advice, assistance, and equipment to maneuver elements in the construction of fighting positions for individuals and weapons systems.
(8) Prepares and executes demolition targets such as bridge destruction, road and runway craters, abatis or other road blocks, and tunnel and railroad destruction.
(9) Prepares and executes other obstacles or combat engineering missions to degrade enemy mobility including berms, ditches, log posts, log cribs, wire entanglements, and combat flame operations.
(10) Emplaces and provides technical assistance in the emplacement of mines.
(11) Provides advice to maneuver commanders on employment of all scatterable mines.
(12) Supports combined arms obstacle breaching operations and provides technical advice, assistance, and equipment support to maneuver elements for assault and obstacle breaching operations.
(13) Performs limited sustainment engineering tasks such as construction, repair, and maintenance of command posts, combat trails, site drainage, chemical decontamination sites, and logistics field sites.
(14) Performs combat missions in the role of infantry, when required.
(15) Provides nine assault boats to transport up to 108 infantrymen in a single crossing.