3rd Combat Engineer Regiment (Australia)

3rd Combat Engineer Regiment
Country	Australia
Branch	Army
Type	Royal Australian Engineers (RAE)
Role	Combat engineers
Part of	3rd Brigade, 1st Division
Garrison/HQ	Lavarack Barracks, Townsville
Insignia
Unit colour patch

Soldiers from the 3rd Combat Engineer Regiment practice clearing a building in 2015

The 3rd Combat Engineer Regiment (3 CER) is an Australian Army modular engineer regiment trained for sapper/combat engineer operations. The unit is based at Lavarack Barracks in Townsville, Queensland and is part of the 3rd Brigade. It has deployed to Bougainville as part of the South Pacific Peacekeeping Force,^[1] to the Solomon Islands under Operation Anode,^{[citation needed]} and has also served in Timor-Leste,^[2] Iraq and Afghanistan.^{[citation needed]}

Structure

The regiment consists of:^{[citation needed]}

• Regimental Headquarters
• 16 Combat Engineer Squadron
• 18 Combat Engineer Squadron
• 25 Support Squadron
• Operational Support Squadron

Notes

1. Nettleton, G. (1995). "Bougainville Peace Talks". Sapper News. Vol. 5, no. 1. p. 11.
2. Vann 2001.

References

• Vann, Kevin (2001). Bridging the Gap: The 3rd Combat Engineer Regiment in Timor 1999–2000. Loftus: Australian Military History Publications. ISBN 1-876439-55-6.