Soldiers, July 1st, 2000
THE 814th Engineer Company from Fort Polk, La., called for assis
tance from the 7th Aviation Regiment at Fort Campbell, Ky., to complete a river-- crossing exercise this past spring. The aviation unit's CH-47 Chinooks airlifted the engineers' bridge-erector boats and six-ton bridge bays into the Mississippi River near Simmesport, La.
Engineers can move over land and launch boats and bridge sections from transporter vehicles, which is what the 814th usually does during training, but sometimes there are miles of congested roads between the engineers and the bridge site, said company commander ...
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