Archives for August 2017

Photo: Engineer with mine detection dog.jpg

August 16, 2017

A Soldier in the Combat Engineer Mine Detection Dog Handlers Course directs his dog during an area-clearance and casualty-extraction exercise in the final week of testing Aug. 7. Upon graduation from the course, the dog teams are assigned to the 94th Engineer Detachment, 5th Engineer Battalion, at Fort Leonard Wood, the only combat engineer unit with mine-detection dogs in the Army and Department of Defense. (Photo Credit: Mr. Stephen Standifird)

Engineers, dogs learning new tricks at Fort Leonard Wood

August 16, 2017

Engineers_dogs learning new tricks at Fort Leonard Wood

FORT LEONARD WOOD, Mo. – All engineer Soldiers train at Fort Leonard Wood, even the four-legged ones.

Fort Leonard Wood is home to the Combat Engineer Mine Detection Dog Handlers Course, where combat engineers are trained side-by-side with mine detection dogs, said Sgt. 1st Class John Martin, course noncommissioned officer in charge.

Photo: Demolition Engineer Reunion

August 10, 2017

Bruce Goll and Richard Hilton, who served with the 275th Eng. Co.
ADM, look at a V-100 “Commando” armored car during their ADM reunion tour of
the Fort Leonard Wood museum July 29.

Press Release: Fort Leonard Wood hosts demolition engineer reunion

August 10, 2017

Press Release 17-118 Fort Leonard Wood hosts demolition engineer reunion

FORT LEONARD WOOD, Mo. – After World War II, a new state of geopolitical tension, known as the Cold War, emerged between the strongest superpowers at the time, the United States and the Soviet Union.

The battle was one of ideas and economics, where Western democracies set out to protect world stability and freedom from the constraints of communist control.