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Army logistics engineer is not a totally new term to me.
They are featured in some war games.
And one of my former colleagues in consulting is a retired Army logistics engineer. She is a mother of two and had done 3 tours in Iraq before retirement.
But what they do and how valuable they are always seems blurry to me.
In games, I almost always prioritize combat troops and weapons production over infrastructure, fortress etc
When my former colleague tried to describe to me what they did in Iraq and why that mattered, I left with the impression (I probably refused to take in the full story like I used to do in my younger days) that they built houses for the soldiers to stay and improved roads for arm trucks. And they were never close to front-line.
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