5th Engineer Regiment (Italy)
The 5th Engineer Regiment is a military engineer regiment of the Italian Army based in Macomer in Sardinia. Today the regiment is the engineer unit of the Mechanized Brigade "Sassari".As of 2019 the 5th Engineer Regiment consists of:
- Regimental Command, in Macomer
- * Command and Logistic Support Company
- * Sappers Battalion "Bolsena"
- ** Sappers Company
- ** Sappers Company
- ** Mobility Support Company
- ** Deployment Support Company
The Command and Logistic Support Company fields the following platoons: C3 Platoon, Transport and Materiel Platoon, Medical Platoon, Commissariat Platoon, and EOD Platoon. Each of the two sapper companies fields a Command Platoon, an Advanced Combat Reconnaissance Teams Platoon, and two sapper platoons. The Deployment Support Company and Mobility Support Company field the battalion's heavy military engineering vehicles: Biber bridgelayers, Dachs armored engineer vehicles, cranes, excavators, Medium Girder Bridges etc. The sapper companies and Command and Logistic Support Company are equipped with VTLM "Lince" and VTMM "Orso" vehicles.
