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===Sapper=== {{seemain|Sapper}} In the British, Indian, Canadian, Australian, and New Zealand armies, a sapper is a soldier who has specialized combat engineer training. The term "sapper" in the U.S. Army refers to a person who either possesses the combat engineer military occupational specialty or who has graduated from the Sapper Leader Course, more commonly called "Sapper School." In Sapper School, volunteers from the ranks of combat engineers and other military occupational specialties (most of whom serve in the [[combat arms]]) undergo training in combat engineer and infantry battle drills, expedient demolitions, threat weapons, unarmed combat, mountaineering, and water operations. Some of the training in this 28-day course, arguably one of the most challenging in the U.S. Army, features covert infiltration techniques or survival skills.<ref>{{cite web| url= https://home.army.mil/wood/index.php/units-tenants/USAES/Sapper | title= Sapper| website= army.mil}}</ref> In the [[Israeli Defence Forces|Israeli Defense Forces]], sapper (Χ€ΧΧ‘) is a military profession code denoting a combat engineer who has graduated from various levels of combat engineering training. Sapper 05 is the basic level, Sapper 06 is the general level, Sapper 08 is the combat engineer commander's level, and Sapper 11 is the combat engineer [[officer]] level. All IDF sappers are also trained as [[Rifleman]] 07, matching [[infantry]].{{citation needed|date=June 2018}} In the [[Canadian Army]], it is a term for soldiers that have completed the basic Combat Engineer training.<ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.forces.ca/fr/job/sapeursapeusedecombat-5 |title=Sapeur / Sapeuse de combat |website= forces.ca |access-date=2013-01-20 |archive-url= https://archive.today/20130219185200/http://www.forces.ca/fr/job/sapeursapeusedecombat-5 |archive-date=19 February 2013 |url-status=dead }}</ref> In the [[Portuguese Army]], a ''sapador de engenharia'' (engineering sapper) is a soldier of the engineering branch that has specialized combat engineer training. A ''sapador de infantaria'' (infantry sapper) is a soldier of the infantry branch that has a similar training and that usually serves in the combat support sapper platoon of an infantry battalion. The [[Italian Army]] uses the term ''guastatori'' for their combat engineers.
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