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INTRODUCTION

The 2nd Engineer Regiment is housed in Linton Military Camp that is situated approximately 10 km South of the City of Palmerston North.  Raised on the 1st of July 1993 the Regiment is the only major Engineer Unit in the NZ Army.  Linton Camp has been known throughout the Army as the traditional home of the Engineers.  The School of Military Engineering first moved to Linton Camp in June 1953 but now comes under the Control of Army Schools in Waiouru.

ROLE OF THE ENGINEERS

To assist in maintaining the mobility of our own forces, deny freedom of movement to the enemy, and provide general engineering support.

MISSION STATEMENT

2nd Engineer Regiment is to generate and sustain Engineer Troop and Squadron level command and control competent in combined arms operations in order to meet directed outputs.

2nd ENGINEER REGIMENT PROFILES 

Commanding Officer - Lieutenant Colonel Todd Hart, RNZE

Executive Officer – Major Mike Pettersen MNZM, RNZE

Training Officer (S3) – Captain Dave McIvor, RNZE

Adjutant – Captain Ian Brandon, RNZE

Accounting Officer (S4) – TBA

Regimental Sergeant Major – Warrant Officer Class One Shayne Vooght, RNZE

Training Warrant Officer - Warrant Officer Class Two Darryn Waitere MNZM, RNZE

Works Warrant Officer - Staff Sergeant Tom Donald, RNZE

Regimental Quartermaster – Warrant Officer Class Two Dave Pullen, RNZALR

Military Plant Foreman – Staff Sergeant "Scratch" Flintoft, RNZE

GIS Cell - Captain Michael Emery, RNZE

ORGANISATION

   

 
THE SCHOOL OF MILITARY ENGINEERING

In December 2003 The School of Military Engineering was separated from 2 Engineer Regiment by the Chief of Army (CA) and returned to Under Command of the Land Operations Training Centre (LOTC).  This now means that SME reports to HQ LOTC, which is part of the Army Training Group (ATG), Waiouru.  SME continues to reside in Linton Camp.

School of Military Engineering Profiles

Chief Instructor  - Major Rowan Wallace, RNZE
Senior Instructor - Captain Keri Anderson MNZM, RNZE
School Sergeant Major - Warrant Officer Class 1 Nai August, RNZE
Wing Sergeant Major, Trade Training Wing - Warrant Officer Class 2 Bredan McDonald, RNZE,
Wing Sergeant Major, Combat Engineer Wing - Warrant Officer Class 2 Jeff Vickers, RNZE

FREEDOMS

The Corps of Royal New Zealand Engineers has been accorded the honour of the Freedom of the Borough of Levin dating from 7 February 1959.  2nd Engineer Regiment exercises this right biennially on behalf of the Corps. 

3 Fd Troop of 2 Field Squadron based in Burnham Camp just outside Christchurch has the Freedom to Akaroa.  

 

RNZE CONTRIBUTIONS THROUGHOUT THE WORLD

 ANTARCTICA

This mission operates annually from Aug - Feb and involves teams of personnel supporting Antarctic New Zealand and the US Antarctic Programme activities in NZ and on the Antarctic continent.  Personnel (incl. the McMurdo Terminal Team and Scott Base support staff) deploy to Antarctica for approx 5 months fm Oct-Feb (Summer Season) annually.  Attachments to the Antarctic annually throughout the season include Engineer Construction Teams. 

 SINAI, EGYPT.

The charter of this force, which is funded by the United States, Egypt and Israel, is to ensure the observance of the Camp David accords between Egypt and Israel.  Multinational Force and Observers (MFO) Sinai is a tri-service contingent of twenty-six NZDF personnel deployed to the MFO. It comprises two Engineers, who manage the maintenance of the MFO’s remote sites along the border.

 AFGHANISTAN

Following the attack on Sep 11 2001 on the USA, a British lead mission was established to ensure the safety and security of Kabul in Afghanistan.  In Jan 2002 New Zealand sent the first of its commitment to the force and a further group of staff officers was deployed in Mar 2002 to the HQ International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) with one Engineer Officer as LO to UNEOD and another Engineer Officers in Infrastructure/ Works. New Zealand has also sent a Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) to Afghanistan to take over an already established operation by the United States.  The PRT is based in Bamain Province, and included in the team are a number of Engineers who are working to better the security and reconstruction efforts in the area.

SERVING SAPPERS REPORT (as at Nov 2009)

Overview

The last couple of months have been an extremely busy period for 2nd Engineer Regiment, with the RNZE Corps conference over the 12th & 13th October.  This gathering enabled us to farewell our out going Colonel Commandant Brigadier (Rtd) Stu Jameson at a formal dinner.  Sapper’s day was once again well celebrated in good old engineer style with lots of well thought out pranks that outwitted the other Corps.

We were also heavily involved with the Tsunami pacific relief team that deployed to Samoa and Niuatoputapu.

However the greatest achievement for 2nd Engineer Regiment has to be the success of our 2 x Engineer skill at arms teams that represented the NZ Army on Cambrian patrol in Wales . The New Zealand Army (thanks to 2 ER) now has their first ever Gold and Silver medals from this annual event. Sappers are once again setting the benchmark for others to follow.

 

SME

SME continues to keep busy in a steady state running our corps individual training. They are now running the Intermediate Fire fighters and the Territorial Corps training courses.  The SME apprentices continue to work with the regiment on various construction tasks both within Linton Camp and the Palmerston North area. The major construction task for SME in 2009 is still the construction of another barrack block at Linton camp.

 

25 ESS

Over the last couple of months the main effort has been on supporting Officer Cadet School in Waiouru on exercise Takrauna.  The other main effort has been on providing Tsunami relief to Samoa and reconnaissance elements to Niuatoputapu. Plant troop continued with road maintenance in Waiouru and various supporting tasks to SME.

 

2 FD SQN

With 2 Field Squadrons main body still in East Timor ,  the one combined light armored vehicle (LAV) troop and general support field engineer troop has focused on exercise Phantom Major which was a support exercise to 1 RNZIR and exercise Black Templar, another support exercise to 2/1 RNZIR in the south island.

 

RHQ

Workshops conducted a serious of recovery exercises in the central north island. Emergency response squadron (Fire troops) are still supporting the fire course at SME and conducting emergency response.  GIS (Geographic Information System) continue to support 2 Land Force Group with their new Battle Lab technology. Works cell still busy keeping ahead of the task sites as well as providing quality assurance. Training cell remain busy synchronizing unit training and engineer support to outside units.

 

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