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3rd Combat Engineer Regiment (Australia)

Australian Army engineer unit

Field	Value
unit_name	3rd Combat Engineer Regiment
country	Australia Australia
branch	Army
type	Royal Australian Engineers (RAE)
role	Combat engineers
command_structure	[3rd Brigade](3rd-brigade-australia), [1st Division](1st-division-australia)
garrison	Lavarack Barracks, Townsville
identification_symbol	[[File:3cer colour patch.PNG	70px]]
identification_symbol_label	Unit colour patch

Soldiers from the 3rd Combat Engineer Regiment practice clearing a building in 2015

The 3rd Combat Engineer Regiment (3 CER) is an Australian Army modular engineer regiment trained for sapper/combat engineer operations. The unit is based at Lavarack Barracks in Townsville, Queensland and is part of the 3rd Brigade. It has deployed to Bougainville as part of the South Pacific Peacekeeping Force, to the Solomon Islands under Operation Anode, and has also served in Timor-Leste, Iraq and Afghanistan.

Structure

The regiment consists of:

Regimental Headquarters
16 Combat Engineer Squadron
18 Combat Engineer Squadron
25 Support Squadron
Operational Support Squadron

Notes

References

Nettleton, G.. (1995). "Bougainville Peace Talks". Sapper News.

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