sappers in English
noun
1
a soldier responsible for tasks such as building and repairing roads and bridges, laying and clearing mines, etc..
This is extremely significant when you consider the reduction of the number of sappers in combat engineer companies.
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1. Just this week, police sappers thwarted a car-bomb attack outside the town of Beit Shemesh
2. Along with the still-dominant heavy cavalry, armies often included mounted and infantry crossbowmen, as well as sappers and engineers.
3. BOMB-DISPOSAL robot creeps up a flyover in the west Baghdad suburb of Ghazaliya, as American army sappers fiddle with their communications devices.
4. During November, New Zealand sappers drove a mine under Hill 60 creating a large crater at the summit though the Allies did not occupy it.