text: Foundations of Engineer Operations
  Tasks That Support Enable Force Projection and Logistics
  The engineer-focused tasks are typically performed by engineer units or commercial contract
  construction management assets, such as USACE (FFE and districts), for specialized and reachback support.
  They can be performed by a combination of joint engineer units, civilian contractors, and HN forces or
  multinational engineers. They may also require that various types of technical and tactical reconnaissance
  and assessments be performed before or early on in a particular mission. This may include countermobility,
  site selection, master planning, support to disaster preparedness planning response, and support to
  consequence management. See ATP 3-34.81 for additional information.
  Geospatial engineers can provide geospatial products to enable terrain visualization and situational
  understanding to support operations. This provides early-entry forces with terrain information and analysis
  on landing sites, movement corridors, AAs, and follow-on objectives, just as it provides follow-on forces
  information on potential locations of bases and base camps for initial operations.
  Combat engineers can provide support that enables force projection and logistics by conducting
  reconnaissance and clearance tasks. Combat engineers conduct route reconnaissance to determine
  trafficability and route classification within an AO. These engineers also detect and mark explosive hazards
  and can clear the hazards that are within capability to ensure the freedom of movement along LOCs, APODs,
  and SPODs.
  Engineer personnel augment sustainment units to support joint logistics over the shore to assist
  planning efforts. Engineer personnel prepare access routes to and from the beach when port facilities are
  unavailable, damaged, or denied; and they prepare landing sites and staging areas.
  Other Tasks That Enable Force Projection and Logistics
  These tasks are primarily general engineering tasks that are not normally performed under conditions
  of support to maneuver forces that are in close combat. (See ATP 3-34.40 for additional information.) These
  tasks include—
  * Constructing and maintaining strategic and operational LOCs, airfields, seaports, railroads, bases
  and base camps, pipelines, bulk and distribution storage facilities, and standard and nonstandard
  bridges.
  * Providing facilities engineer support.
   Mobile electrical power.
   Utilities and waste management.
   Real estate acquisition, management, remediation, and disposition.
   Firefighting.
  * Conducting battle damage repair.
  * Conducting baseline surveys and environmental assessments.
  * Improving fighting and protective positions and hardening facilities.
  * Providing prime power.
  * Providing Corps of Engineers real estate teams.
  * Providing engineer divers.
  * Neutralizing water-borne obstacles that block shipping channels in port and other navigable
  waterways.
  * Repairing or reinforcing damaged subsurface structures as port facilities, dams, and bridges.
  * Conducting search and recovery to locate and salvage submerged equipment, supplies, and
  personnel.
  * Providing support to joint logistics over-the-shore operations.
  BUILD PARTNER CAPACITY AND DEVELOP INFRASTRUCTURE
  Engineers combine capabilities from across the three disciplines to support the build partner capacity
  and develop the infrastructure line of engineer support, which are vital to stability and counterinsurgency