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As hard as it can be to say nice things about engineers, there is some truth to their "first in, last out" motto.  When the infantry and armour hit something they cannot simply bypass or brute force their way through, it's the engineers we call up and push to the front to make a path.  So the...

I was doing some reading the other day and ended up looking at old army journals and training memoranda.  The first article of Canadian Army Training Memorandum No 10 was "The Duties of an Officer" (cut and paste below).  In 1942 it was a reprint of a WWI article, and the contents were assessed...