{"id":220728,"date":"2026-03-06T15:54:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T20:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/06\/using-technology-army-moves-combat-engineers-from-the-breach-to-save-lives\/"},"modified":"2026-03-06T16:40:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T21:40:11","slug":"using-technology-army-moves-combat-engineers-from-the-breach-to-save-lives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/06\/using-technology-army-moves-combat-engineers-from-the-breach-to-save-lives\/","title":{"rendered":"Using technology, Army moves combat engineers from the breach to save lives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.stripes.com\/branches\/army\/2026-03-06\/fort-hood-engineer-brigade-breaching-operations-20974583.html\">Using technology, Army moves combat engineers from the breach to save lives<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.stripes.com\/branches\/army\/2026-03-06\/fort-hood-engineer-brigade-breaching-operations-20974583.html\">https:\/\/www.stripes.com\/branches\/army\/2026-03-06\/fort-hood-engineer-brigade-breaching-operations-20974583.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-03-06 15:54:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.stripes.com\">www.stripes.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"default-font lh-default ma0 mh3 mt0 pb3\">\n\t\t\t\tA smoke machine attached to a TRV-150 unmanned aircraft is tested during a training scenario March 5, 2026, at Fort Hood, Texas.  (Rose L. Thayer\/Stars and Stripes)<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p class=\"storyline-p f4 \">FORT HOOD, Texas \u2014 Clearing the path to the front lines of combat only has about a 50% survivability rate for Army combat engineers. <\/p>\n<p class=\"storyline-p f4 \">Challenged to improve that, Fort Hood\u2019s 36th Engineer Brigade trained Thursday in breaching operations using more than a dozen pieces of new technology to find the right mix that will make sure all soldiers survive. <\/p>\n<p class=\"storyline-p f4 \">\u201cWe are executing in concert with a maneuver formation to remove soldiers from the breach and get the armored formation through,\u201d said Maj. Michael Caddigan, operations officer for the 36th Engineer Brigade. \u201cOne of the most complex things we do is breaching a complex obstacle.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"storyline-p f4 \">The efforts of the engineer brigade began last year on the periphery of the Army\u2019s Transformation in Contact initiative that pushes the service to rapidly field new technology, Caddigan said. It\u2019s all about saving lives and being ready for what the next war will look like.\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"storyline-p f4 \">\u201cWe would put 150 soldiers against this problem set behind us. We would expect to lose about 75 of them with the old ways of doing things,\u201d he said. \u201cNow, using our [machine assisted] capability, our expectation is that we keep those 150 soldiers alive for the next fight.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"mb2-plus4\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stripes.com\/incoming\/1rwyqr-engineersphoto05.jpg\/alternates\/LANDSCAPE_910\/EngineersPhoto05.JPG\" alt=\"A soldier uses a controller to guide a drone.\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"default-font lh-default ma0 mh3 mt0 pb3\">\n\t\t\t\tPfc. Marquel Jenkins, a combat engineer with the 36th Engineer Brigade, flies a TRV-150 unmanned aircraft capable of moving up to 150 pounds during a training scenario March 5, 2026, at Fort Hood, Texas.  (Rose L. 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