The CME inherited many things from the original Royal Canadian Engineers including the Motto Ubique which simply means EVERYWHERE
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Canadian soldiers repair a key bridge on the road between Kandahar city and Pakistan on Thursday, March 11, 2010 that was badly damaged when a suicide bomber blew up his vehicle on it while attacking coalition troops earlier this month.
The March 1 attack on a convoy of NATO-led troops killed four Afghan civilians and one foreign soldier. The attacker struck the convoy on a bridge spanning the Tarnak river, which is several kilometres away from Kandahar Airfield where Canadian and other coalition troops are based.
For the past two days, Canadian troops have been putting metal replacement pieces over the blown-up sections of the bridge.
What the plan is, as we're speaking, is to over-gap that was damaged or partially destroyed by the vehicle-borne IED, said Warrant Officer Eric Rousseau.
The bridge itself is 250 to 300 metres long. The Canadians are replacing a 42-metre section damaged by the blast.
Earlier in the week, Afghan and Canadian soldiers assembled pieces of the bridge within the relative safe confines of Kandahar Airfield. Those pieces were then trucked out to the bridge site.
Although Afghan soldiers were involved in the initial stage of bridge building, Canadian and Afghan journalists who visited the bridge site Thursday saw only Canadian troops doing the repair work.
The military expects to finish repairing the bridge in the next few days.
Whether Bridge building at Vedder Crossing on Exercise or Exercise on the Rhine. Canadian Engineers have served with pride everywhere. A section of Engineers with Canada's DART team set up water purification plants in Haiti and other countries which required Urgent Emergency Water supplies. Whether due to War or Mother Nature
The Engineers are part of Canada's finest in the Military TEAM.
Another part of the Canadian Team is of course our Naval partners, Tune in tonight to Global 6 pm news from the Maritimes to watch their program on
The Stalker of the Seas' HMCS Fredricton also available on the Global TV Website. Tonights show is about the Cooks the backbone of Morale in any Unit. Enjoy
Naturally we cannot forget to mention our Air Units, The primary mover of Cargo, Pax, Fighters, Helos and drones all part of the Canadian Team Fabric.
Well done Canada and our Military Pride and Professionalism Shines through in all you do, for the world and for CANADA.
Well done Canada et de notre fiert et le professionnalisme militaire transparat dans tout ce que vous faites, pour le monde et pour le CANADA.
Nil Sine Labore
Robby
