Corps of Royal Engineers
The Royal Engineers is a corps of 15 regiments in the regular army providing military engineering (civil engineering, assault engineering and demolition) capabilities to the field army and facilities management expertise within garrisons.
Regiments are associated with Brigade level formations with a number of independent squadrons and support groups associated with specific tasks:
The Royal School of Military Engineering (RSME) comprises two recruit training regiments:
- 1 RSME Regiment - Construction Engineer School
- 3 RSME Regiment - Combat Engineer School
The remainder are field regiments attached to various deployable formations:
- 21 Engineer Regiment - 4th Mechanised Brigade
- 22 Engineer Regiment - 1st Mechanised Brigade
- 23 Engineer Regiment - 16th Air Assault Brigade
- 24 Engineer Regiment - 3rd Commando Brigade
- 26 Engineer Regiment - 12th Mechanised Brigade
- 28 Engineer Regiment - 1st Armoured Division
- 32 Engineer Regiment - 7th Armoured Brigade
- 35 Engineer Regiment - 20th Armoured Brigade
- 38 Engineer Regiment - 19th Light Brigade
- 42 Engineer Regiment - Geographic services
- 8 Force Engineer Brigade
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- 12 (Air Support) Engineer Group, support to the RAF:
- 39 Engineer Regiment (Air Support) - engineering support to the RAF
- 529 Specialist Team Royal Engineers (Air Support)
- 12 (Air Support) Engineer Group, support to the RAF:
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- 29 EOD & Search Group; Explosive Ordnance Disposal
- 33 Engineer Regiment (EOD)
- 101 Engineer Regiment (EOD)
- 36 Engineer Regiment (Search)
- Also attached to 29 Engineer Group are two EOD regiments of the Royal Logistic Corps.
- 29 EOD & Search Group; Explosive Ordnance Disposal
Two squadrons of 36 Engineer Regiment are cap badged as Queen's Gurkha Engineers and are manned predominantly by Gurkhas.
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- 170 (Infrastructure Support) Engineer Group (formerly Military Works Force); responsible for permanent and temporary infrastructure development, including water, fuel, communications and utilities:
- 62 Works Group, RE - Water Infrastructure
- 63 Works Group, RE - Utilities Infrastructure
- 64 Works Group, RE - Fuel Infrastructure
- 65 Works Group, RE - Line of Communications Infrastructure
- 530 Specialist Team Royal Engineers (Materials)
- 627 Works Marines Comabat engineers (Destruction)
- 170 (Infrastructure Support) Engineer Group (formerly Military Works Force); responsible for permanent and temporary infrastructure development, including water, fuel, communications and utilities:
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