5 Combat Engineer Regiment (French: 5e Régiment du genie de combat) is a regular force regiment of the Canadian Military Engineers commanded by a lieutenant-colonel. It is currently located at CFB Valcartier, Quebec, and is assigned to 5 Canadian Mechanized Brigade Group.
This unit is divided into five squadrons:
- 51 Field Engineers Squadron (French: 51e Escadron du génie de combat)
- 52 Field Engineers Squadron (French: 52e Escadron du génie de combat)
- 53 Field Squadron (French: 53e Escadron du génie de combat)
- 55 Support Squadron (Heavy Equipment) (French: 55e Escadron d'Appui)
- 58 Administration Squadron (French: 58e Escadron de Commandement et Service)
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“The combat ended for want of combatants.”
—Pierre Corneille (1606–1684)
“A good scientist is a person with original ideas. A good engineer is a person who makes a design that works with as few original ideas as possible. There are no prima donnas in engineering.”
—Freeman Dyson (b. 1923)
“What makes a regiment of soldiers a more noble object of view than the same mass of mob? Their arms, their dresses, their banners, and the art and artificial symmetry of their position and movements.”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)