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1 Combat Engineer Regiment

Field	Value
unit_name	1 Combat Engineer Regiment
native_name
image	CanMilEng.png
caption	Royal Canadian Engineers
dates	1977–present
country	Canada
branch	Canadian Army
type	Combat engineers
command_structure	1 Canadian Mechanized Brigade Group
garrison	CFB Edmonton
motto	Ubique
march	"Wings"
battles	War in Afghanistan
website
commander1	LCol D. Amundsen
commander1_label	Commanding officer
commander2	CWO B. Leben
commander2_label	Regimental sergeant major
identification_symbol	[[File:NATO Map Symbol - Unit Size - Battalion.svg	100px]]
[[File:Military Symbol - Friendly Unit (Solid Light 1.5x1 Frame)- Military Engineers - Combat Engineers - Wheeled Mechanized (NATO APP-6C).svg	100px]]
identification_symbol_label	NATO Map Symbol

Operation Enduring Freedom

1 Combat Engineer Regiment (1 CER, ) is a Regular Force regiment of the Royal Canadian Engineers (RCE) commanded by a lieutenant-colonel. Its headquarters is in the Patton Building at CFB Edmonton (Steele Barracks), Alberta, and it is assigned to 1 Canadian Mechanized Brigade Group.

History

1 CER was continually involved with rotations to Afghanistan as part of the ongoing war on terror. Due to the regiment's special armoured engineer capability, every Canadian rotation since 2006 had a minimum of an armoured troop from 1 CER attached.

1 CER had six soldiers killed in Afghanistan.

Organization

Sub-unit	Size	Composition
Regimental Headquarters	50	Command team (commanding officer, deputy commanding officer, regimental sergeant major, adjutant) headquarters troop (operations and training, signals, drivers, library, RSM assistant.)
11 Field Squadron	60	Squadron headquarters, field troops (stood down in 2016, stood up again in 2020)
12 Field Squadron	70	Squadron Headquarters, jump troop, field troop
13 C-IED Squadron	0	This squadron is not currently active. it was closed when 11 Fd Sqn was stood back up in July 2020 it was organized as a field squadron, as an armoured engineer squadron, and as a counter-IED squadron.
17 Armoured Squadron	60	Squadron headquarters, armoured training cadre, armoured engineer troop
15 Combat Support Squadron	80	Squadron headquarters, heavy equipment troop, resource troop, construction troop, dive troop, explosive ordnance disposal
18 Administration Squadron	120	Squadron headquarters, orderly room, padre, maintenance troop, logistics troop, family support services

Armoured engineers

1 CER is different from other CERs as it holds the Canadian Army's armoured engineer capability. Formerly this was provided by the Badger Armoured Engineer Vehicle (AEV) Since 2018 the Badger AEV has been replaced by a Leopard 2–based AEV that is known in Canadian service as the AEV2 (still commonly called the Badger, or Badger 2).

Order of precedence

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References

[https://web.archive.org/web/20110609185549/http://www.forces.gc.ca/site/news-nouvelles/fallen-disparus/index-eng.asp Fallen Canadians, www.forces.gc.ca]
"Badger Armoured Engineering Vehicle (AEV)".
(16 April 2018). "New Leopard 2 Armoured Engineer Vehicle is 'the natural evolution'". Canadian Army Today.
(4 October 2018). "Ex ASCENDING SAPPER". 3rd Canadian Division Twitter Account.

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