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  Sapper Tab
The Sapper Tab was approved by the Chief of Staff, Army, on 28 June 2004.
The Sapper Tab metal replica is available in two sizes, full and dress miniature.  Soldiers authorized to wear the Sapper Tab may wear the Sapper Tab metal replica.  The full size version is approximately 1 5/32 inches (2.94 cm) in width.  The dress miniature version is 13/16 inch (2.06 cm) in width.
 The dress miniature metal tab is worn on the blue and white mess and evening mess uniforms.  When miniature medals are worn on the blue and white dress uniforms, personnel may wear the dress miniature Sapper tab metal replica.  The tab is authorized for permanent wear.  Further wear policy is contained in AR 670-1.
www.tioh.hqda.pentagon.mil /Tab/SapperTab.htm   (144 words)

  
  29043 Sapper Robert William Hunt, Royal Engineers   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Sapper Hunt and the other ordinary soldiers of the Camp were especially grateful to him because, as Adjutant General, he had done so much to improve their conditions of life.
Sapper Hunt's work at this point consisted mainly of the maintenance and exploitation of the railways and telegraphs, the construction of defences, provisioning of cantonments and hospitals, road and bridge building, and blockhouse construction.
Sapper Hunt served in South Africa during all of the year 1902, and in January of 1903 he was assigned to the 5th Field Company, R.E. On the 29th of April he was transferred to the 1st Class Army Reserve, on the expiration of his period of active Army service.
members.aol.com /reubique/29043.htm   (8275 words)

  
 TR Stratics - Classes of Tabula Rasa: THE SAPPER (Tier 3)
The Sapper is a focused classification in Combat Support for Specialists that wish to concentrate on becoming a robotics engineer and an expert in the art of hacking.
Sappers can help combat teams access secure systems and hack enemy robotics to disarm them or even turn them on their masters.
The Sapper is a focused classification in Combat Support for Specialists that wish to concentrate on becoming a battlefield mechanic and expert in explosives.
tr.stratics.com /content/classes/sapper.php   (213 words)

  
 Sapper and Golden-Blade
Sapper is a member of the alien Rajaki race, the only member of his race to physically survive Ultimo's attack upon them.
Sapper survived the attack and the crash because he was a cyborg, but the rest of his people were mortally wounded.
Sapper then uploaded his peoples' consciousness into the ship, and the two began stealing energy and materials to one day construct robot bodies for them.
www.marvunapp.com /Appendix/saprgb.htm   (1103 words)

  
 Sapper Construction Story
Dave Sapper, company president, explains that one of their strong points is their ability and willingness to work closely with clients, and work out the difficulties before small differences mount to legal tussles.
Basically the three Sapper brothers, Dave, Mike, and Steve, run the company and are supported in advice by their still-active father, and company founder, Gene Sapper.
Sapper Construction Company began in 1962 when Gene Sapper gave rein to his entrepreneurial impulse and went from concrete salesman to concrete contractor.
www.calcontractor.com /septconcrete01/sapper.html   (1165 words)

  
 OLIVARI - Richard Sapper
One of the few designers never to have attended a school of design or architecture, Sapper does not like to describe his own work and is convinced that the project has to speak for itself.
In spite of his prevalently technical bent, Sapper has created various design products for the home which have become classics-almost cult objects-not merely for their functional qualities but also for their formal aspect and expressive capacity.
Sapper's products are marked by his artful capacity to transmit a symbolic image.
www.olivari.it /uk/designers/sapper.html   (267 words)

  
 SAPPER ATTACK
Initial explosions of the charges the lone sapper had set beneath the Hueys began, adding to the confusion of our barracks personnel who were grabbing weapons and rounds to join the battle.
Investigation would later reveal that one of the sappers in the covering team had indeed fired a rocket propelled grenade (RPG) apparently aiming directly into the mass of junior officers streaming from their 2nd floor home.
But, because of the near total darkness where he lay in waiting, the sapper with the RPG, failed to note a wooden fence post which ricocheted the round away from the officers exiting through the doorway, which is why it ended up in the eave.
www.angelfire.com /fl5/jackserig/281st/11_Sapper_Attack.html   (674 words)

  
 Mine Sandals,sapper’s sandals
Mine fuses differ in the minimum weight required to trigger them (in accordance with their different purpose), in the depth at which they are buried in the ground (and hence in the dimensions of the fuse) as well as in the fuse surface area.
Harnessing of the sapper’s sandal to the loading rig — on top of the rig there is a weight simulating the weight of an average soldier, including his combat gear.
Controlled loading of the sapper’s sandal as it is lowered onto the dummy fuse — including variable rate of descent of the sandal (to simulate the soldier’s walking speed).
www.securityprousa.com /minesandals.html   (2204 words)

  
 Elizabeth Sapper   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Sapper relates several stories about plays and other activities which filled the days of Truman neighborhood children.
After Harry S Truman became president, Sapper joined the rest of the area in the favorite pastime activity, watching famous people visit 219 N. Delaware.
Sapper's shop then obtained the rights to sell the only authorized memorial plate with Harry S. Truman's image and signature during his lifetime.
www.nps.gov /hstr/OHP/sapper_e/sapper_e_bio.htm   (121 words)

  
 Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for sapper   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Mystery shooting of fifth soldier adds to demand for inquiry; Bullying claims by dead sapper's mother as suspicion over Army base 'suicides' grows.
Agony of the girl who calls her dead sapper's mobile.
An Israeli sapper inspects the remains of a Palestinian home...
www.encyclopedia.com /searchpool.asp?target=sapper   (244 words)

  
 210903 Sapper John Revie, Royal Engineers   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Sapper John Revie as a veteran in 1918.
Sapper Revie was transferred to the Wireless Signal Depot with the British Expeditionary Force in France on the 13
His duties with this unit involved monitoring the traffic and movements of the high-powered German wireless stations working in the rear area and the movements of bomber aircraft employed by the enemy.
members.aol.com /reubique/210903.htm   (2483 words)

  
 A Look at Glascock Poet Katharine Sapper
Poet Katharine Sapper FP One year ago, Katharine Sapper FP sold Alto Voltage, the successful advertising agency she operated in Guatemala City, to pursue an education and career as a writer in the United States.
Sapper will be judged in competition with student poets from Brandeis University, Colby College, Hampshire College, the University of Connecticut, and Vassar College.
Although she is a new writer, Sapper is a longtime reader of both English and Latin American prose and poetry.
www.mtholyoke.edu /offices/comm/csj/041902/poet.shtml   (857 words)

  
 Susan R. Matthews excerpt - Sapper Sequence 1
Compared to the second and third (final) versions, for instance, this material is relatively reactive rather than active, describing much of the action not as it is happening but as Andrej and the rest of the medical staff are reacting to it.
If the sappers got through to the main battle guns they could more than disable Scylla-they could destroy the ship-and there would be no worrying about his triage stream once that happened, after all.
A Nurail sapper, and wracked horribly from neck to knee with the fearful blow of a contact bolt fired at close range.
www.sff.net /people/susan.scribens/excerpt-sapper1.HTM   (6902 words)

  
 NIVEK BEAGLES UK Stoke Place Sapper
It is said Sapper was sold for $250 and resold for $125, a princely sum for 1919.
With regards to Sapper's ancestry, his dam Winsome '08 (pictured), won the Champion Cup at Peterborough for best single bitch any age and along with Scholar '09 and 4 others won the best 3 couples of either sex and any age from one kennel in 1910.
This might also explain why Sapper went to America as many packs were disbanded or reduced their stock due to shortage of food.
www.nivekbeagles.org.uk /nivek/NivekBeagles_SPSapper.htm   (730 words)

  
 Sapper - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Broadly speaking, sappers were originally experts at demolishing or otherwise overcoming or bypassing fortification systems.
To be a sapper, a Soldier must complete the Sapper Leader Course which is operated by the U.S. Engineer Officer Basic Course at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri.
The Sapper Leader Course is a 28-day course designed to train joint-service leaders in small unit tactics, leadership skills, and tactics required to perform as part of a combined arms team.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sapper   (945 words)

  
 Sapper Attack   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
It is a basic assumption of the sappers that a majority of the defenders will be driven inside their bunkers by mortar fire.
The primary objective of the sappers is to penetrate the defenses and inflict maximum casualties; destroy equipment, ordnance and installations, and withdraw.
If aggressiveness, ingenuity and professionalism are stressed, the sapper attack is doomed to failure – no matter how well planned, for in virtually any sapper attack, the sapper unit is outnumbered by his opponent.
lzrussell.org /HistoricalDocs/sapper_attack.htm   (2406 words)

  
 Sapper Tab - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Sapper Tab is a military badge of the United States Army which was authorized on June 28, 2004 by the Army Chief of Staff, General Peter Schoomaker.
To be awarded the Sapper Tab, a service member may or may not hold the designation (MOS) as a Combat Engineer, but must have completed the Sapper Leader Course, which is operated by the U.S. Engineer Officer Basic Course at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri.
The Sapper Leader Course is a fast-paced 28-day course designed to train joint-service leaders in small unit tactics, leadership skills, and warfighter tactics required to perform as part of a combined arms team in a contemporary operating environment.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sapper_Tab   (586 words)

  
 1st Fallschirmjager Pioneer Field Manual
Well, with the addition of the 1.30 patch, Sappers are no longer as effective as they were before in anti infantry means.
This no longer gives the sapper the initiative it had before (running in lobbing grenades) and now that tactic can be done better by smgs (jogging in and engaging with smg from longer distances).
But with this new cover it also gives the sapper the ability to sneak up better on tanks and the such, I myself will not be playing sapper as much as i used to, Although i may when needed, i feel the rifleman or smg can now fill its place effectively.
www.angelfire.com /pr/sapper   (162 words)

  
 86th Engineer Bn Dedication page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
The term sapper originates from medival times when it was discovered that moving infantry through tunnels up to the castle walls was an effective technique.
The Sapper is a dark, sombre man who looks where he is treading, and talks most of the time about box girders and conduit pipes.
It tends make him jaundiced towards his fellow man. He suspects that a hearty greeting is the forerunner of a request for two bags of cement or that the inquiry after his health is to ease the blow of asking for a working party.
members.tripod.com /flavets/engineer.htm   (753 words)

  
 Sapper (Ms. Marvel/Iron Man character)
Purpose: Sapper and Golden-Blade have been "appropriating" (read: stealing) energy and materials to restore Sapper's people to physical life as robots.
Powers: Sapper is apparently a cyborg and probably has superhuman strength (enhanced human to Class 5) and can fly.
Sapper was the only one to survive the attack and the crash (because he was a cyborg), but the rest of his people were mortally wounded.
www.marvunapp.com /Appendix/sapper.htm   (1164 words)

  
 red dot online: Richard Sapper Exhibition in Berlin
Sapper, who was born in Germany and lives in Milan, is creator of design classics such as “Tizio,” the first halogen desk lamp, which is exemplary of his design approach.
Many of his modern classics are represented and shown in the permanent collections of museums and exhibitions, more than 15 of his objects are on display in the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
Since 1980, Sapper works as IBM design consultant and is responsible for their worldwide product design.
en.red-dot.org /1248.html   (277 words)

  
 Royal Engineers Museum - History - Corps History - Origins of the Sapper page
The term 'Sapper' originates from the act of besieging; for to get close enough to the walls of a fortress to lay mines to breach them, zigzag trenches had to be dug.
In rear of the first Sapper a second Sapper dug the trench deeper and in rear of him, third, fourth and fifth men each worked at a slightly different level so to deepen the trench.
The rank of 'Sapper' was conferred onto the private soldiers of the Corps of Royal Sappers and Miners on its amalgamation with the Corps of Royal Engineers in 1856.
www.remuseum.org.uk /corpshistory/rem_corps_sapper.htm   (565 words)

  
 Thottbot World of Warcraft: Goblin Sapper Charge
There were units in Warcraft 3 called Goblin sappers, they were like merceneries (from the goblin laborotory), anyway, these lil' buggers had no attack what-so-ever...
Goblin Sapper Charge, when used it caused damage to all enemies (friend or foe) and generally kills the Sapper, although this is a great attack when the sapper is on a solo mission!
The separation would keep the first sapper from blowing up the next one too soon, and with three or four their town hall was generally toasted before they knew what the hell was going on.
www.thottbot.com /?i=14343   (1866 words)

  
 Katz, Sapper & Miller - Certified Public Accountants - Our People : Your Success   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Katz, Sapper and Miller - Certified Public Accountants - Our People : Your Success
And it’s developing relationships with knowledgeable and trusted people such as those at Katz, Sapper & Miller that improve a business’ likelihood of success.
Katz, Sapper & Miller recognized as 5th “Best Place to Work in Indiana”
rd.business.com /index.asp?epm=s.1&bdcq=Sapper&bdcr=1&bdcu=http://www.ksmcpa.com/&bdcp=&partner=2662601&bdcs=nwuuid-2662601-2CFE8E9C-F581-32EC-D6AD-62A599C78D0C-ym   (127 words)

  
 SAPPER - Richard Sapper products
Born in Munich, Germany in 1932, Richard Sapper studied philosophy, anatomy, graphic design and engineering, and later received a degree in economics in 1956.
Numerous Richard Sapper products are exhibited in the permanent collections of MOMA in New York, as well as other Design Museums across the world.
Richard Sapper is said to have been inspired by the barges and steam ships of the river Rhine.
www.design-conscious.co.uk /topic/topic-8961-1.stm   (859 words)

  
 WoWInterface Downloads : Sapper: Sap and Blind Warnings
Sapper performs a simple function elegantly: letting everybody on your team know who you have sapped or blinded, and when it has run out.
Now Sapper uses new events added in WoW 2.0 to watch for you to actually use Sap or Blind.
Whether Sapper is Enabled, whether Marking is Enabled, whether the Sound is played when you Blind, and what Channels to Announce in are all stored between sessions.
wowinterface.com /downloads/info6268-Sapper.html   (478 words)

  
 Sapper Wappen / Seal   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
The family of Richard Sapper in Degerloch ordered the seal-painter, on his request, to produce the seal.
It is likely that the water-scoop should refer to Ambrosy Sapper, grandfather of Johann Jakob Sapper, a fisherman in the monastery of Königsbronn.
Our aunt Elsbet Maier assumed, in her text to the Sapper seal copy, the origin of the name from (German) "schwerfällig gehen", i.e.
www.qslnet.de /member/dj4kw/sawapt.htm   (854 words)

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