The Sapper Leader Course trains selected combat engineer unit leaders in leadership skills, combat engineer and infantry battle drills, and the specialized engineer and infantry techniques required to perform as members of a Sapper Battalion. The course is also designed to build cohesion and esprit de corps by training soldiers in troop leading procedures, demolitions (conventional and expedient), mountaineering operations, aerial operations, airborne operations, foreign weapons, land navigation, waterborne operations and contingency threat. The course culminates in an intense field training exercise that reinforces the use of the battle drills and specialized engineer techniques learned throughout the course.
"The Sapper Leader Course is open to all active and reserve units. Enlisted soldiers should qualify in their MOS with a priority going to 21B, 11B, and 19D, specialist promotable and above, and officers in the rank of Captain and below. Soldiers in the grade of E4 who are not promotable must have a wavier signed by their Battalion Commander..."
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