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2007-05-01 12:08 PM

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Subject: Any Army Corps of Engineer folks

Last Friday a dredge barge carrying a crane with it's boom elevated struck and severely damaged our main bridge linking the lowcountry Sea Islands with the mainland. We still have the old turnbridge in Beaufort but you can only imagine how bad driving is at the moment (see my training page). Years ago I was a Combat Engineer Officer in the Marines and we had some small pontoon bridges but I know the Army had some really large and versatile mobile bridging. Just wondering if any BTers have experience in that area and if these bridges are still used or available.

Or maybe if someone has a helocopter I can borrow.

2007-05-01 12:19 PM
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We generally use ribbon bridging now for water fording.  Basically like the pontoon bridges.  They still train us on building Bailey bridges, although they aren't even in the inventory anymore (Abrams is too big to safely cross one).

I wasn't a bridging specialist, I was a Combat Engineer, but we had to have some understanding of what the bridge monkeys do.  It was interesting, if rather dull.  Much more fun to blow the suckers up. 

2007-05-01 1:11 PM
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Oh yeeeeaaaahhhh!
2007-05-01 1:14 PM
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I will say this much....That was the great part about becoming a Cavalry Scout.  All the fun things from being an engineer, without all the pounding of pickets or digging.  We did demo, did all the recon (fortunately, all hasty).
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