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Photo Of The Day: Being an engineer in the Army sounds boring, doesn’t it? Well, perhaps not if you join the Special Operations Engineer Regiment in Australia. These engineers look pretty Special Ops if you ask me.
The Australian Army special operations combat engineers and other technical specialists from the Special Operations Engineer Regiment at Holsworthy Barracks, Sydney, offer unique and vital technical enablement skills to the Australian Defence Force’s special operations capability. Special Operations Engineer Regiment special operations force soldiers are highly trained to work as an integral part of an expeditionary Special Operations Task Force both within Australia and overseas.
The Special Operations Engineer Regiment reports to the Headquarters Special Forces Group, a brigade-level formation within Special Operations Command. Special Operations Command’s mission is to prepare and employ special operations forces in order to defend Australia and its national interests
The unit’s motto is ‘Inter Hastas et Hostes’, which is Latin for ‘Between spears and enemies’, signifying the traditional sapper (or combat engineer) role and the enduring unit requirement to operate in the dangerous space between enemy forces and own troops.
Photos and captions by CPL Sagi Biderman, Australian Department of Defence. https://www.defence.gov.au