The Engineering and Logistics category encompasses a diverse range of topics, ranging from combat engineering to bridging, and pallets to container handling.
Battle trenches and fighting positions for small groups of individual soldiers, crew served weapons, or vehicles, are intended to provide shelter, concealment, and protection from enemy fire. Sometimes in isolation,…
Above ground protected shelters are used for rest areas, medical facilities, HQ and CP functions, storage, and equipment care.
Larger underground shelters (bunkers) can be used for higher level command posts, vehicle and ammunition storage, data centres, first line equipment support, personnel rest locations and medical facilities.
During the early sixties, MEXE developed a multipurpose buried shelter system called the MEXE Shelter, or Field Shelter Mk2 or Mk 3
Whilst fascinating in of itself, the US Army crossing of the Sava River between what is now Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1995 would have a profound impact on…
The more you read about the Haiti earthquake response, the more you realise what a magnificent, awe-inspiring effort it was. Israeli and Iranian teams working side by side, the air,…
The 2010 Haiti earthquake airport story is much shorter than the seaports. This is for a few reasons. First, the main international airport at Port-au-Prince was relatively unscathed by the…
Despite the obvious utility of air operations for rapid response and time-sensitive materials, overland from the Dominican Republic and more directly over the beach or through the existing ports would…