1 Combat Engineer Regiment


1 Combat Engineer Regiment is a Regular Force regiment of the Royal Canadian Engineers commanded by a lieutenant-colonel. Its headquarters is in the Patton Building at CFB Edmonton, Alberta, and it is assigned to 1 Canadian Mechanized Brigade Group.

Organization

Armoured engineers

1 CER is different from other CME units as it holds an armoured engineer capability in its Badger Armoured Engineer Vehicle

Afghanistan

1 CER had been continually involved with rotations to Afghanistan as part of the ongoing War on Terror. Due to the regiment's special armoured engineer capability, every Canadian rotation since 2006 had a minimum of an armoured troop from 1 CER attached.
As of the start of 2011, 1 CER had six soldiers killed in Afghanistan.

A note on the name

Like most Canadian Forces units, the designation the regiment is only known as "1 Combat Engineer Regiment" and not "1st Combat Engineer Regiment".

Order of precedence